That is the lowest most scumbag thing I have ever seen, and I am from NYC!

This is real w**! I am ashamed of my own people. They don’t even know how to imitate.

most pages don’t seem to work, I bet it’s just a way for them to justify squatting on the domain name.

this is f’ed up

Learning School? As opposed to unlearning school?

he, he if you click on on ‘contact’ on the top of the page, you can see that they are doing reverse outsourcing, and have european looking people in the call center :)

This is actually a non story. I have seen schools like Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford with fake or no accredition which are run out of ramshackle buildings.

Since this school put up a site, you guys are able to see it and its a hoot but for Indians this is all in a day’s work.

I meant, I have seen schools like Harvard et al in India….

I bet the Video Professor has something to do with this.

nice little lawsuit coming their way.

Any link you click on is dead too:

Not Found

The requested URL /students.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Did you run out of stories on a Saturday night :-). You have made a bunch of jobless losers known to few million people in the world. Don’t waste your time on such sites. There are thousands of such sites from India.

and some jokers in us are reading it. screw both

really? wr r u from?

Dude….write something good or don’t write !!

………and nice little publicity by TechCrunch. I didn’t even know it ever existed in the first place.
And now they could even write ‘As seen in TechCrunch’.
I’m astonished that the links aren’t even nofollowed

The guys probably spent < 50$ in the whole thing. Probably we all spent 1000$ thinking about it :)

poor googl :) the losses must be staggering. :)

Not sure which audience you are looking to educate about online education scams. I am watching American Greed on TV – much better scams!

Justin Long could be reached for comment.

cool it man. sounds awesome.

Google also sells Ice gola – it’s kind of Indian Slush Puppie crushed ice with flavoured syrup on top.
http://www.wave13.com/google-new-product-gogola-an-icegola/1213/

I’ve lived in India all my life and I haven’t heard of these schools (Harvard et al). Do enlighten me, where do they exist?

Though to be fair, I’ve only lived in the major cities…

Interesting read, but I agree with most commentators. Useless. There are 150+ lookalikes and soundalikes of the iPhone in China, r u going to give all of them free coverage.

At best these GOOGLLE guys will get a legal notice, they will change their name and continue duping people. But thanks to TechCrunch, they would have been more popular and perhaps get into IPO quicker.

My request: people delete this article and all comments immediately.

I finished up all my courses Haarvard and they still have not emailed me my law degree.

can you say Accepted? lol

Lawsuits on the way (:

http://www.rageish.com – they have more news on such stuff :)

Haha! This is nothing. There is a village in India named after Google. And, I believe that businesses might crop up using the name based on the village, and the cyber major can do nothing about it

Why is that it has become the norm when dirt gets attention? Why can’t it be ignored whereas paying attention to legitimate do gooders.

I guess notoriety and those which are evil has its backers.

Looks like those Indians are fast learners. Exactly the kind of scam you could expect to find in the mail in the U.S. I bet that’s where they got their inspiration.

I dont think the institute exists physically. looks fake to me.

Well, if you don’t know then a fresh drinks and “gola” company also exists in India. It’s named “Gogola” and has got a same sort of logo as Google itself.

I think Sergey Brin & Larry Page are not reading this.Lol when it comes to Googlle !

Here is the link for that -
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2008/september/google-or-gogola

Man!..thats a disgrace to the country and the people.There must be a ton of other such fake schools all over the world or in asia atleast.TC must cover them if they have covered this..so that people dont think its just indians who do this kind of stuff.

Fake Fake!

But it’s funny!! Just look at those images in the flash slideshow. They are teaching this in the advanced school of computing – 10×6=60, 12×6=72 (the blackboard image)
:D

I think anybody from India would not be surprised to see this. There are loads of such fake institutes in nearly every city.

Remember the 11th anniversary logo? http://www.google.com/logos/logos09-3.html

btw… http://www.cbonlinepvtltd.com/contact.html … same guys … same address and phone number in Orissa.

Indians will try anything and everything to make a buck. The word “no” does not exist in Indian culture. If you have ever outsourced a project to India you know.

That is exactly why is none of your business what they do in India. How many times do Techcrunch report about too “similar to Indian websites” done by us here?
This is a non story delete this post, it’s annoying!

fix this typo, put a be between “could” and “some”.

“the Googlle Institute has a website that looks like it could some sort of legitimate online training school — if it weren’t for the sketchy naming, branding, and plethora of dead links.”

Imitation they say is the sincerest form of flattery, but this is sick. I’m sure Google India will look into this IP violation and bring the weirdos to book. Very unethical to say the least.

It’s just too funny that one of the graphics rotating on the page is covering such advanced concepts as “10 x 6 = 60,” “11 x 6 = 66,” and “12 x 6 = 32.”

Well, we are ashamed of you :-|

I don’t know why TC is giving them publicity. There are many more like that in India. Every corner of any Indian city is full of these courses. These are all scams. Not that they will not teach you anything but it is useless for any job. These institutes are created to make money for the owners only.

Wow.. They’ve got so many hits that their bandwidth limit has exceeded..

Wah, Better than the Apple Bath Products! http://bit.ly/uTim7

Awesome… I guess I’ll take up admission at Googlle and then get a chance to do a followup post on TechCrunch about the “inner workings” of this prestigious institute… Totally worth it :D

@MG – Seriously did you run out of ideas? Will we see you posting about every damn clone or sneaky sites now and giving them free coverage now?

their bandwidth limit exceeded and is out of access.

quite a crappy post if you ask me.
Of all the things thats happening in India, you chose to ‘fill up’ TC sunday scoop by covering something that is just not worth covering.

That Googlle’s headquarters is just 1km from my home, let me just go and check it out today.

OMG…Check out this one: http://goooooogle.com/

They are selling some books and toys…

haha.. and now the site doesn’t exists. Bandwidth problems .. !

Thanks to TC : “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”

i love it!

What, you don’t think that picture of the campus/campus life looks real?

lol. this post is so sad. smdh. fml. all of it in one, but i do love these scammers and their scammy ideas. great larf. nice of mg to sick goog on them. rolling my eyes.

hahaha. it looks like a stock photo. an appropriate and specifically money reeking stock photo. i like these scammers already. i’m sure those trees are native to india…surprising the school looks like a community colelge somewhere in new york. oh the possiblities.

beware of the bottomless pit of evil…even if this is a form of flattery/a joke (quite possible), it takes quite a mind to set something up like this so be careful.

i hope you cover every scammy lookalike of corporates from now on. it’ll give you more work.

I don’t think the guys even know that this is some sort of copyright violation. Here, a lot of people still think that using pirated Windows is a normal thing and they’ll look at you like a monkey if you say that it costs upwards of Rs.5000.
I’m from Orissa and this is so embarrassing! Shame on us.

I just tried to check the site. This came up:

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

This can only come from India, the country that in 2030 will be where China is today.

David Ord is like mylocator 2.0 !

Techcrunch crashed there server. 500 Bandwidth Limit. LOL

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded. LOL

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded , this is exactly whati got when i opened it.

Harvard Institute of Management in Ghaziabad is a good school. You can get an MBA in 1 month for a mere $25,000. Not bad, eh?

Yeah yeah.. Now, get back to your cave.

TechCrunch effect.

The site is already showing “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”

Chances are that they are hosting it on some cheap service in the United States :)

Are you really from Nepal!! If so, LOL..

oxford college, Bangalore ?

I think it’s the pics are from KIIT, Bhubaneswar..I’m just guessing..

Look what you did to them..

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

Haha, yeah. I got 509 Bandwidth Limit here.

Do you work for them or something? Of course its other peoples business if you BREAK copyright, jeez.

Its not about losses, its about them using googles name for something that isn’t googles, it misleads people.

You break copyright yo deserve to be punished.

In fact there are 3 or 4 “oxford colleges” in bangalore ? Who cares except techcrunch ? I really doubt if any one is going to take admission in googlle institute thinking that its GOOGLE.
Its very common practice in india to use these look alike name but its only for easy recognition.
TC thinks that google will be bothered by this. I bet GOOGLE does not care about it. TC wanna make fun of india. Thats it.

People making these types of comments are idiots. The site misleads people so it should be shut down.

No that is just a site place holder.

In fact there are 3 or 4 “oxford colleges” in bangalore ? Who cares except techcrunch ? I really doubt if any one is going to take admission in googlle institute thinking that its GOOGLE.
Its very common practice in india to use these look alike name but its only for easy recognition.
TC thinks that google will be bothered by this. I bet GOOGLE does not care about it. TC wanna make fun of india. Thats it.

I wouldn’t think Google will be very happy over the logo rip off. If it were just the name + an l I don’t think they’d bother, but the logo will confuse people a lot more.

Scams trying to rip off Google’s success… nothing new here, move along. (Anyone remember Google Fortune)?

@Anand,
Good catch. I wasn’t able to recognize that flag in his profile icon :)

Nepal is just LOLz….. and he is talking about Indian web hosting services… LOL….

how did you find this??

If you think thats scum …. Check these out …

Google Ice Golas (Ice Lollies) – http://www.worldnewsforum.net/chit-chat/8528-google-gogola-ice-golas.html

Now… Thats Food…. for thought…. :P

And, what did you find out at Googlle’s headquarter? I am excited.
Hope you didn’t get into trouble… ?!

I graduated from Harvart school of Oxfort Engineering and started Googlle Insitute. Cheers to me.

ya it seems kind of a crazy thing. but remember indian computer engineers are worlds best. in any it company there is even one indian guy

Reminds of the “Pizza Hut” I came across in India in 1997- it was a tea shop. Things getting ripped off isn’t news in India. It’s just an amusing happenstance for people who know better. Half the time the people don’t what they’re ripping off- just that its big in some other country..

There are thousands of such sites from all over the world.. not just India :)

Have you heard of countless number of sites in US, that claims “Make money using google” and actually comes up as genuine pop ups from newspaper web sites. I have seen much bigger spammers here in US.

@WhiteNoise Hilarious! I’m a Bostons Collage grad myself. Lol!

[...] thing for businesses they do.  Well, as you can tell from the correct spelling of the headline..that’s not what this is.  There’s some totally frigtarded place called the “Googlle Institute of Software [...]

I really pity the students who come from Tier-III and Tier-IV cities to such metro, Tier-I and Tier-II cities with a hope of joining a recognized educational/job training institutes, take up a good job after passing from such institutes, however land up in such fraud institutes. They loose their money and the motivation to learn. Needless to say why India has more 1500+ MBA institutes.

The question here is not which country leads in such scams or spams. This post just stresses the fact they exist and what should be done to avoid people from joining them…

Of course I knew that. But if MG had taken it upon himself to profile every other violator, why not this one..

This is how we Hustle in da Indian Hood dawg.

I don’t know, as an Indian, if I should be amused or annoyed. There’s a lemonade sorta stand that has the same name.

I hope these guys are well prepared for a lawsuit coming their way

One of the images in the “Learning School” screenshot is stolen from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Nicely done!

I’m surprised the Chinese let India beat them… http://icanhashappy.blogspot.com/2008/10/funny-chinese-knock-off-products.html

I love how their photo montage includes a picture of the Manchester Metropolitan University, and another of ITHACA in New York (amongst general stock photos).

Before they went all Googlle happy, they were going to call themselves “Dharitri School of Management” instead.

it’s not suprise,they aren’t ready for this :)

Hilarious. At least you didn’t graduate from the Cambridge Institute for Pre-University of Phoenix Scholars

Great school and good T&C covered this…after all India and people – they got some strong balls and this is what Indians are contributing an idea to real google world to get a school/institute open ;) not sitting and covering stupid TC posts here and there…haha I see some good potential dude…

This is silly, nothing more.

And yes, I love how all the Indian’s squirm in their chairs when they see some dirt on/from India.

Hey Indians, cool down. People are people every where, and everyone wants a quick buck. Nothing personal here.

Gopal

It’s only a matter of time before H-1B visa applications come in listing this bogus diploma mill as the college of record. Google needs to apply all possible efforts to shut this thing down.

Siegler ran short of ideas and picked this post from hos old emails :)

How anyone can be pissed of by this? I’ve been laughing for 5 minutes straight.

not necessarily. if it’s a joke and they aren’t trying to actually take money, there is probably little that google can do.

They gonna get in trbl for that

What are these comments all about? Do Indians have a superiority complex with regards to Nepal?

smells like a degree/diploma mill…
maybe you may want to report this

Will I get a job in Google after completing my GCPA?

lol….

techcrunched?!? haha. you’ll definitely need a better webserver when you get the “as seen on techcrunch” title.

UPDATE: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

I bet they were hosting it on a free service.

The issue is that there is little to no copyright enforcement in india, this is the same reason outsourcing to india is bad – they can rip your source, launch a competitor, and there is nothing you can do about it.

The pot and kettle thing..

Thats pretty interesting to say the least! Also there web page is not opening.

IP infringement does not require illicit gain in order to be actionable.

This happens in India…No hard feelings.. Myself Indian. Shit.. I wanna kick that damn managements

@Steven McCormick,
Yes, it’s analogous to Americans having a superiority complex with regards to Indians.

Wow…………..sounds good.

Amazing to see TC has digged out time to write such articles.

haha…This is sick…atleast copy it properly…this show what quality of education they have for students :-))
good job…tech spy!

These sort of people bring bad name to India and its IT industry.

Google (googlle) + TechCrunch – What more reputation they need? Maybe, there are already applicants. At least they must have got enough visitors to get some ads ;-)

Oh Crap, I already enrolled.

They must already be puzzled about what went wrong with their website… and might have already contacted the india based mafia to take care of the web-guy :P

This is India. They are a factory and nothing more. After 20 years, not a shred of innovations has come from there. Neither have the Indians here done anything but copy existing US business models. India and Indian “developers” may be trendy but they are WAY overrated

[...] تتوفر في هذا الموقع العديد من الصور التي تجعل الجامعة تبدو وكأنها جامعة حقيقية، ولكن بعد أن قام محررو TechCrunch [...]

Well, Google themselves have used the “Googlle” logo at least once, when they were celebrating their 11th birthday
see here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/27/googlle-google-logo-spell_n_301123.html

Check out the director of this proud concern :-), http://www.cbonlinepvtltd.com/director_desk.html.

Words are cheap indeed :-).

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.

Apparently, that website is slashdotted :). Oops i should say, that site is Techcrunched now.

I hope … sometime google will come in thailand

Soon to hit comments limit exceeded.. duh!

BTW, There’s a village in India by name Google.

Link: [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Search-for-Google-ends-in-Karnataka/articleshow/5273604.cms]

Don’t tell that village was named after Google. Read the article. In fact the village head is happy that someone has named their company after his village.

[...] of some kids naming their company after his village? Yeah, it was Google village. More Google love. Here is a post at TechCrunch on a school being named after Google, with a bit of typo. Indeed the name Google itself is a typo, [...]

So, who is the bad guy?
I think – Googlle needs to immediately copyright its name – lest Google starts misusing it for its evil purposes.

Great way to get tagged :)

Freakout mate.. I am ashamed of u.. wtf u ashamed of?

I like the Appple school of software better it is backed by the Madoff school of business lol

Have seen many such ‘institutes’ touting ‘foreign univ/brand name affiliations in their ads. Barring the obvious ones like Googlle, it is hard to tell what’s ‘bonafide’. I hope someone shuts down the ‘Googlle school’ before some unfortunate guys/gals send their hard earned money to these con artists. It is tragic that Indian politicians in the federal and state govt’s are too busy being corrupt or courting photo opps, to give a hoot about these fake schools. Good work TC!

Welcome to third-world advertising.

I don’t think Mr. Arrington will agree with your request.

haha i was right-sorta. i knew those pics looked familar.

lol. the first one i saw on the page reminded me of ithaca. i am so glad i wasn’t the only one who recognized the pics.

hahahaaaaaa. i can’t you remember that crappy logo. nice. i thought the same thing. i was like uhm aren’t they in the clear considering google used the same variation of their name. at first i didn’t know what to make of this story but i love the googlle guy(s). this is awesome. it’s so fake and wonderful and so poorly made it’s amazing. i mean not even using stock photos but creating your own stock photos by stealing them from all over the web and mostly from american schools. simply amazing.

I went to the website and at the bottom it says

”
Declaration
We are no way related to Google Search Engine, neither we provide any services like Google.
Google is our god.”

You can’t go to any of their links, its like everything as been shut off

@ Debajyoti Das Gogola lol !! :)

Googula and Googule are nick names in that part of India. Its likely that this institute has been named after somebody’s name, but incidentally the name got conflicted with “GOOGLE”.

I investigated more about Googlle school. It turns out the website is owned and put up by Google itself to have some fun with TechCrunch. They got you ;)

Google mocked manipulative TechCrunch into a fake news like Facebook did few months back.

[...] [來源：TechCrunch] [...]

MG how did you miss the disclaimer on their homepage?

“Declaration:
We are no way related to Google Search Engine, neither we provide any services like Google. Google is our god”

You have also removed the disclaimer from the screen shot of the homepage that you uploaded here.

It is a trademark violation not copyright as some have suggested. Bless their little hearts in copying the colorful logo of a well known brand but not actually claiming an affiliation to Google. Because then the legal pitbulls would have a field day.
By claiming that they are an alleged *learning institute*, it seems like they might go unchallenged.

I wonder how photoshop helps make someone an alleged ecommerce expert but what the hell do I know. I’m not a Googller.

[...] "Googlle" opens a school in India! Wait, what? What's a "Googlle"?! http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/02/google-school-googlle/ [...]

This is hilarious….y do people think using similar sounding names and not the exact words means they are doing a legitimate business. Not just technology but in every nature of business such fake bogus companies are operating.

[...] but it even uses the same favicon, all whilst having dead links to various web pages. According to TechCrunch, Googlle offers two different certifications: the “GCPA – Googlle Certified Professional in [...]

Well I think .. the writer has missed the disclaimer at the bottom of the site .. that they are not linked with google .. and so on ..

Best,
Daina

I think this is something very funny, I don’t think it is possible…and if it is then this is hilarious…Someone is trying to cash the name of Google’s name at the cost of education…

Google had the same name for one day on 9/27/09 when they changed their homepage logo to Googlle to commemorate their 11 year anniversary. I think these guys got the idea from Google’s one day logo change.

Google has given theses guys a PR2 ranking so they obviously don’t know about them or care.

20 years from what? I guess overrated people are losing the job, isn’t that what you are crying about? Oh wait some Indian is your replacement at work.

Yes, when Indians sleep they dream of Nepal being part of Indian Union but when they wake up their dream is shattered. LoL on Indians.

coming back to post,
when whole world is laughing seeing someone in India ripping off Google, Indians on TC are feeling the Heat.

That also shows the truth that the whole Indian IT industry is somewhat based on rip offs.

[...] 不过，很显然他们没有经过Google 的同意。他们之前的logo还跟google一模一样，不过可能被国外站报道后修改成红色的了。来源 [...]

[...] Aparentemente, ofrecen 2 títulos. A saber: [...]

Its really i interesting like GOGOLA
hhhhhhaaaaaaaa

哈哈你们也玩山寨,还是GOOGle

Either this article is fake or they have changed their website, pl visit the site: http://www.googlleinstitute.com/index.html
I do not see any webpagge/image like the one mentioned in this article. The logo is completely different and there is a disclaimer on the home page “We are no way related to Google Search Engine, Neither We want to copy the name or take advantage of that name & Pronounciation of same is different as “Google”.”

[...] week, we covered Googlle opening a school in India. Googlle, not to be confused with Google. Obviously, this was a site and service set up to trick [...]

[...] week, we covered Googlle opening a school in India. Googlle, not to be confused with Google. Obviously, this was a site and service set up to trick [...]

TC is covering such news never imagined … what happened your hits are going down ..

There is also a HARWARD UNIVERSITY outside of bangalore

there is a HARWARD University outside bangalore in case you are too good for GOGLLE

hey the now the site doesn't exists. i think coz of Bandwidth problems ..