I didn't know Google had a store
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I didn't know Google had a store
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Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#2It isn't technically Google-operated: they've outsourced it, which is fairly common for promotional goods. (McDonalds doesn't specialize in making T-shirts, after all.)
What I find hilarious is that if you buy an $8 T-shirt from Google you can actually talk to a human being about it, which makes that approximately the only Google-brand product sold for under $100,000 where that is reliably true.
Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#3now you know.
Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#4The funniest thing about it that it runs ASP on IIS.
Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#5For more details check this earlier post on HN : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652807
Apparantly google is outsourcing it to some 3rd party (in this case it's Merchandise Mania Ltd, Borehamwood, UK)
Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#6Quite a few companies have one. Yahoo! has one too (http://companystore.yahoo.com/).
I'm always amazed at the amount of people that stop in front of the Yahoo! sign to take photos.
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#7Google has had a store for a long time. As far as I can tell it was at one time the only way they were making money - before AdWords and the Google Appliance were invented.
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#8I didn't know Google Checkout was available in Australia now.
Pretty annoyed that they want CC details before telling me shipping, though. I wanted some Google grocery bags!
Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#9Quite a few companies have one. Yahoo! has one too ( http://companystore.yahoo.com/ ). I'm always amazed at the amount of people that stop in front of the Yahoo! sign to take photos.
Pretty much any large branded company has their own store. Cisco has a physical store on campus that sell branded stuff.
Re: I didn't know Google had a store
#10I don't know if this is exactly 'life changing'... although it is pretty cool.