Found Footage: Google's ad, Mac style

Happy weekend! Google may have won some hearts with its Super Bowl ad a little while back, but we all know that Apple is the king of advertising when it comes to technology, so YouTuber allenmonroeiii decided to make a little parody of the Google ad and promote the Mac instead.

Strangely, it actually works -- while the audio is straight from the Google ad (which tells the story of a guy who finds love in Paris by searching on Google), the music serves just as well to tell the story of someone frustrated by a Windows PC purchase. No, this probably won't sell any computers (it's for us Mac heads to laugh at, considering that it was made in about an hour), but go ahead and enjoy it for what it is, and enjoy your weekend.

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Source: http://obamapacman.com/2010/02/google-superbowl-ad-spoof-app…

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DiabloDan2001

Typing "I want a computer that works" and hitting I'm feeling lucky takes you to the apple home page.

Typing "I want a computer that doesn't work" and hitting I'm feeling lucky take you to a Microsoft support page.

Interesting....

February 28 2010 at 6:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy Marshall

really? that great a parody?!
its just the same old tired crap where someone makes an ad and some Apple fanboy gets all hurt and stroppy and creates something for his community to remind themselves why they get to be all elitist about their purchasing history.

At least Googles Parisian Love ad had some charm to it.

February 28 2010 at 5:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jim.hu.biobio

So, when is TUAW going to start embedding videos like this in HTML5 instead of flash?

February 27 2010 at 7:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

andgar

I tried this on Firefox and I got the same thing. Can somebody confirm whether or not this works on a pc?

February 27 2010 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

FightTheFuture

cute parody. i bet there will be a bunch more of these soon.

February 27 2010 at 4:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Paul Lewis

I thought that was great. And the ending clickâ€”I'm feeling lucky. Nice. But thinking about it, getting a Mac is not so much about luck... it's more of just a smart choice.

February 27 2010 at 4:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

skullcia

@balls What are you trying to say? If your saying apple is bad because it's device manufacturers hire children, then you didn't read the whole article. I can't think of any other corporation that goes through so much to insure any quality of living for emplyees of other companys that may manufacture things for their own company.

February 27 2010 at 3:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Smitty

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I don't see Dell or HP even trying to discover poor labor management practices in countries with fewer workers' rights, let alone changing suppliers because of it. The Bloomberg story deserves wider circulation in order to get PC manufacturers to (once again) rise to the standard Apple is setting as a global advocate for fair business practices.

February 27 2010 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve

0:24 ... The Top suggested hit for "why is m" is "why is my poop green"

February 27 2010 at 3:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

I love how that if you actually do type I want a computer that works into google and press I'm Feeling Lucky it goes to apple.com/getamac/

February 27 2010 at 2:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lars

Some other searches:

"Transfer files from iPhone using Bluetooth"
"Sms function address book bluetooth"
"Wifi Sync contacts iPhone"
"battery life iPhone"
"repair permissions +crashes"
"kernel panic +vmware"

And so on.

February 27 2010 at 2:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply