SEL: Google's Marissa Mayer Demonstrates Her Wicked Sense of Humor

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May 27, 2005

Google's Marissa Mayer Demonstrates Her Wicked Sense of Humor

I always like to have at least one light post on a Friday.

If you didn't know it, Google's Marissa Mayer has her own blog...kind of. It's a parody blog that is perpetually in beta and has a blogger called "Marrisa" that works for "Company X". Here's some of the hilirious stuff she posts...

...I never even said CompanyX is a search engine, it could be portal for all you know!

...naughty spammers must take their punishment like a good boy, and don't waste your time telling me that you didn't spam because clearly if the algo has caught you then you were being naughty. Weren't you? Just a little bit?

...Obviously this could be a cunningly perceived PR job by myself to make it look like people are taking the mickey out of me, thus raising my profile, and I could then be making this post as a kind of double bluff. I have, after all, been hanging around with CompanyX Guy far too much.

...of course I can lie ably - I work in PR. It's a prerequisite, although we'd prefer to give it its proper name of 'corporate spin'.

And lastly...

...CompanyXguy's position in the company is basically to say cryptic things that scare us into conforming to the company X's view of the world. So, for example, earlier he said to me "Careful Marissa Beta or you might fall into the sandbox. I'll look into it for you. I'll pass your message on to the appropriate department". Just as I was about to say "what message" the very next thing that happened was I tripped over Larry's foot, squashing Eric's sand castle. But at least it was a soft landing. Eric was a bit narked to be honest but he calmed down when I pointed out that it was only a beta sand castle and he should expect a few hiccups and minor issues. Luckily for me the CompanyX webmaster was passing by so I managed to blame him: "Eric, it wouldn't have happened if somebody had put information about the new CompanyX sand box on the intranet".

Whoever this Marissa is, CompanyX should make sure that they let her talk to the public more often. ;-)

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