Yesterday's item about Google's co-founder wearing sneakers and a T shirt while trying to lobby Senators in Washington generated a huge number of comments. So did our online, live, poll, criticizing Sergey Brin for dressing so informally.
(Photo at left is from the Washington Post's story.)
The poll votes were 50-50. Written comments on the blog post were also evenly split.
The story itself, meanwhile, really does seem to have been an inside-the-Beltway thing. Scouring the search engines this morning, I could find only one other major media report of Brin's "dressing down." Good Morning Silicon Valley said he was "apparently woefully under dressed." All the other coverage focused on the Google chief's expressing second-thoughts about working with China's demands for censorship.
I think it's hilarious that Google has now admitted that it has no plans whatsoever to remove itself from China. In fact, they are moving forward! So many people had hoped that Google would "redeem" itself. So naive.
Posted by: Sasha | Jun 09, 2006 at 09:51
Bummer -- we don't get to be a major media outlet :)
We focused on it separately from China: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060607-082929
Reuters did:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198483,00.html
But yeah, it was pretty much all China.
Posted by: Danny Sullivan | Jun 08, 2006 at 13:38