• Google's Latest Search Story Makes Having A Baby Seem Really Depressing

    Alexia Tsotsis

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Thursday, July 29th, 2010



    Launched during this year’s Super Bowl with its inaugural “Parisian Love,” Google’s Search Stories campaign is meticulously engineered to be relatable and tug at your heartstrings.

    Their latest offering, “New Baby,” portrays the joys and costs of parenting a little too well, heavy on the latter. So you’re clueless, your wife is pregnant and crazy and you have to sell your precious vinyl collection to be able to afford twins, which are an “expensive proposition”?

    And on top of it all you have to buy a minivan (and sell the Porsche presumably)! If I was that dad I’d be searching for “how to get a vasectomy” instead of “how soon can we try again?”

    Company: Google
    Website: google.com
    Launch Date: September 7, 1998
    IPO: NASDAQ:GOOG

    Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company’s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing...

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