Google Buzz Privacy Stunt
Don’t you think the Google Buzz privacy situation was a good old fashioned publicity stunt? How else could they get so many to talk about a service that’s almost impossible to use?
Over and over, all week, we’ve heard tech pundits say: “Google’s mistake was that they only tested internally”.
What?! Google doesn’t need a control group to realize the public would rather not have their contacts shared, publicly. That’s privacy 101; leaving me to believe the privacy breach was intentional.
I mean, honestly, if someone didn’t catch such a simple mistake, pre-roll-out, then they have some serious project management issues over there in Mountain View
Look, one month after Facebook’s privacy controversy, the social network hit 400,000,000 (yeah, that’s million) users, globally.
Google noticed and decided they needed a privacy controversy of their very own. Perhaps the magic would rub off.
The difference is, though, people are already hooked on Facebook. No one’s hooked on Google Buzz, and aren’t likely to be – at least not with their own free will.
And the question is, will forcing people to see the Buzz icon, every time the log into Gmail, get them to actually use the service?
Let me know what you think in the comments, below.
