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Google's new logo is a disgrace. What other companies have made similar mistakes?

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  • #62
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    It looks more like Comic Sans to be honest.

    Would sans serif have been worthy of investment?


  • #63
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Another business blunder that comes to mind is NewsCorp paying $580 Million for Myspace in 2005 only to mismanage it and then offload it for $35 Million.

    Another? How is the logo change a business blunder?


  • #64
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I can't even remember the old one at this stage.


  • #65
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,645 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I can't even remember the old one at this stage.

    Search for it.


  • #66
    pmasterson95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭pmasterson95


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Another? How is the logo change a business blunder?

    Gerry Rio didnt invest his many millions thanks to the change.


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  • #67
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    PARlance wrote: »
    Search for it.

    where would one do that? altavista?


  • #68
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    where would one do that? altavista?

    DuckDuckGo?

    Seeing as I never see the logo, I can't say I give a ****. Is google.ie still your homepage OP?

    It's surely to tie into the look of Android 5.0 and 6.0, which are similarly styled. I like the style of them, so I'll give this a thumbs up.


  • #69
    Le Surge Eyed Amant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Le Surge Eyed Amant


    I preferred the old one, but it's not a massive deal or anything!


  • #70
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    I don't love it, I don't hate it. It's not even all that different.


  • #71
    Car99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭Car99


    Did you pen this , http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-you-hate-googles-new-logo


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  • #72
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Candie wrote: »
    What did P&T stand for? I think I can figure out P, but T?

    Post and Telegraph.


  • #73
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    It has made me lose a lot of respect for a company I admired greatly and I was close to buying some shares in this year.

    ^ "Stupid Post of the Year"


  • #74
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    It has made me lose a lot of respect for a company I admired greatly and I was close to buying some shares in this year.
    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Are you 7 years old?
    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    A company's logo is the first thing you see of them, so of course it has a lot to do with what you think of them.
    Maybe if you are extremely shallow, or 7 years old. What search engine are you going to use now? and where are you going to invest your money, you should get onto their marketing department just in case.


  • #75
    Lord Riverside
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Lord Riverside


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    where would one do that? altavista?

    Bing it


  • #76
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Bring back Marathon.


  • #77
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Peregrine wrote: »
    I don't love it, I don't hate it. It's not even all that different.

    A good point, it's nothing too original. Which is why I'm surprised it has generated so much controversy!


  • #78
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I can't even remember the old one at this stage.
    http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5384b5076bb3f78d6bdfdb97-800-283/google-old-2.jpg


  • #79
    maxwell smart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,941 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Gerry Rio wrote: »
    Google's new logo is like a child trying to write with crayons, it really is mind boggling what they've done. It has made me lose a lot of respect for a company I admired greatly and I was close to buying some shares in this year.

    I'd say Google are switching back to the old logo as we speak (well, type) as this thread has no doubt set off a big red alarm in the Google HQ. Picture that movie War Games and you get the idea.


  • #80
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    Can you imagine the mind of this Gerry Rio.
    It would be funny to be inside his head for a while. He was sitting there respecting Google Inc. Becoming horrified at the logo. Losing respect for the multinational technology company. Deciding to cancel prospective equity purchase. Expressing his outrage in public. Suffering a mild break down before having an insight that the logo has a kind of tidy, bright, uncluttered, minimalist elegance. Desperately phoning his stock broker as the share price shoots up. Too late. Too late......


  • #81
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    I really dislike venues being renamed after corporate sponsors like The Point or Grand Canal Theater.

    "Grand Canal Theater" had a timeless and elegant quality to it, but "Bord Gais Energy Theater" is an unwieldy mouthful whose name probably won't last more than 10 years and is also confusing to any tourist who doesn't speak Irish.


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  • #82
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    I really dislike venues being renamed after corporate sponsors like The Point or Grand Canal Theater.

    "Grand Canal Theater" had a timeless and elegant quality to it, but "Bord Gais Energy Theater" is an unwieldy mouthful whose name probably won't last more than 10 years and is also confusing to any tourist who doesn't speak Irish.

    When I heard that it was to be renamed the Bord Gaid Energy Theatre, I genuinely thought it was a joke. No way could that be a real name, I thought. It was irony, I reckoned. But no. :( The Grand Canal Theatre was a lovely name.


  • #83
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    the Bord Gaid Energy Theatre, I genuinely thought it was a joke.
    +1, the "energy" bit was ridiculous, would have been bad enough without it too. I can picture a bunch of gobshite suits sitting around saying "but that's what the full name is".

    It'd be like calling it the "aviva insurance PLC stadium"


  • #84
    Lord Riverside
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Lord Riverside


    Google have such an unbeatable dominance in the market and such a vast quantity of patents, they could make their logo a steaming turd and it wouldn't affect their profits. Given internet 'culture' it would probably increase it. Look at us all discussing Google's slight change in typeface for their logo.


  • #85
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    What about.....
    "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined theatre"

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/captain-fantastic-claims-worlds-longest-name-993957.html


  • #86
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    rubadub wrote: »
    +1, the "energy" bit was ridiculous, would have been bad enough without it too. I can picture a bunch of gobshite suits sitting around saying "but that's what the full name is".

    It'd be like calling it the "aviva insurance PLC stadium"

    YES!!! It was the word 'Energy' being there that pushed it into the realms of farce. That's why I didn't believe it was a real name! 'Bord Gais Theatre' would still be terrible but much less farcical.


  • #87
    Notavirus.exe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    I don't care what logo Google use. I don't use services that collect as much info about you as possible.


  • #88
    Lord Riverside
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Lord Riverside


    Notavirus.exe wrote: »
    I don't use services that collect as much info about you as possible.

    Yes you do, you just don't know it


  • #89
    Notavirus.exe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    Lord Riverside wrote: »
    Yes you do, you just don't know it

    I most certainly do not! :mad:


  • #90
    StonyIron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 409 ✭✭StonyIron


    It doesn't look very dramatically different to me.

    I've never really liked google's logo to begin with so I'm not outraged!

    It does remind me of multicoloured fridge magnets.


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  • #91
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The biggest blunder I can think of is Blockbuster having the opportunity to purchase the fledgling Netflix for not that much money..

    You can all see how that turned out.


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