Google Store - over-priced rubbish or what?

[Bob Crabtree]

The Google Store - yes, there is now a Google Store - has one area dedicated to software (most of it free) but is largely given over to selling branded goodies (and not-so-goodies), mostly at somewhat inflated prices.

The lengthy list includes Google Goo (at a bargain £9.49); Google lava lamps (a snip at just £41.99, with a Euro>UK plug adaptor adding only a further two squids); the Google Baby Creeper (that's a vest to you and me and it's £5.75); and the oh-so-affordable Google Blinky Pin for £1.49.

Mixed in the mire (or shining like gems in a crown - it's a viewpoint thing, after all) are two particularly interesting items - interesting that is, even if you're not got the hots for buying stuff emblazoned with the Google name. One is in the Office department; the other in a section all of its own.

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[johnny02004976]

who actually designed this crap - who the hell wants to walk around in Google jogging bottoms or the Google arm warmer.

[Michael]

Google Store has been around for years.

The goo is just firebox.com's thinking putty.

[Bob Crabtree]

Google Store has been around for years.

So, for that reason, you're saying it's best we don't say anything about it?

[mull]

"So, for that reason, you're saying it's best we don't say anything about it?"

Well, yes? Plenty of companies sell branded wares for silly money, but we don't get news stories about them, do we? All a bit too much Googlephilia, if you ask me.

[nichomach]

Actually, I can see the search appliance being a useful addition to a corporate network - there may be better business intelligence tools out there, but the idea of an intranet google isn't a bad one, and given the HUGE scads of data that even a moderate sized business can generate, a usable search engine that can just be dropped into your network could be worth a few K.

[nvening]

Well yes but i think we are laughing more at the badges and "goo"

[scottyman]

i can just see the marketing gorilla now... jumping up and down in the meeting throwing bananas going "goo, goo, goo"
what's that kong, you want us to sell branded goo? brilliant!