Sunday 2 January 2011

URL SNAFU tarnishes Google Chrome billboard ad

It's funny when Google, masters (or at least, wanna-be masters) of all things Internet make an obvious mistake like this. A billboard, or hoarding, as they call them in India, isn't going to get many adopters of Chrome, since the URL provided is wrong.

The problem, of course, is case-sensitivity. The billboard gives the URL http://www.google.co.in/Chrome, when it needs to give the URL http://www.google.co.in/chrome. It's such a small mistake, right? In terms of results, it's like a GPS pointing you to Sacramento instead of Los Angeles.

Of course, as one commenter points out snarkily, if the first attempt lands you on a 404 error page, you might have to search for the actual URL, using Google search, which is, after all, it's primary business.

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