Yesterday, we posted the advertisement which Google aired during the 3rd Quarter of the Super Bowl. Since then, it has become a hit. And when anything becomes a hit on the Internet you’ll have the obligatory knock-off videos.
This one comes from UCB Comedy. Some of the clip is just recycled from the original, but rest assured, they’ve put their own little spin on things. They’ve named the video “Parisian Oops” and given it the tagline “Romance, Consequences, Awkwardness. Search On.” All will become clear when you watch the video. Check it out below.
It appears as though Yahoo! may be the first real competitor to Twitter. Other companies such as Facebook have tried to draw people away from micro-blogging back to social networking. But there has been no real competition on the actual micro-blogging front.
A while back, Yahoo! stealthily rolled out Yahoo! Meme in the Portuguese language only. Nobody was all too sure why they did this because as business goes, you’re supposed to promote, promote, promote! Now their reasoning is clear.
It was a test. To see if it stood a chance without causing the company any embarrassment if it failed. They are now tackling Twitter on the global front by launching the micro-blogging platform in the second biggest language in the world; Spanish.
While people all over the world do use Twitter, studies have shown that services are received better by the public when they are tailored specifically to their needs – in this case their language.
While I can’t see Meme over running Twitter on the English servers I can see the new Yahoo! service picking up steam in South America, Mexico, West Africa and of course Spain.
