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Tuesday 19 June 2007, 1:31 PM
Google's first and last euro press day?
I am over in Paris for Google's first ever charm offensive for the European press - it had a similar event last year in the US and is trying the model over here - but at the moment it more offensive than charm.
CEO Eric Schmidt is showing up later so let's hope they have got the power working properly by then cos I am betting he won't take a comms collapse as well as VP of search Marissa Mayer who soldiered on despite water coming through the ceiling and a complete power collapse half-way through her talk.
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Given Google's current popularity in the industry I am sure the assembled journalists will be crying into their capuccinos.
It seems to be Google's second mis-judged PR effort in the past 7 days, I read that they tried to hi-jack a recent event to push their new payment service and steal thunder from ebay - ebay then promptly cancelled all their advertising with Google
Or is this just sour grapes driven by envy for their unstoppable success...?


