BP Buys "Oil Spill" Search Term 439
technology_dude found an unsurprising but amusing little story that BP is buying keywords on Google and Yahoo for things like "Oil Spill" to help spin some damage control. I guess if you can't plug your spill, the least you can do is try to clog the flow of information.
Sign Sign Everywhere a Sign (Score:1, Funny)
Brings a tear to my eye... (Score:4, Funny)
Suddenly I'm proud to be British. God save the Queen!
Obligatory twitter quote (Score:4, Funny)
@BPGlobalPR
By the way, we made it so if you google image search "oil spill" or "bp" you'll see some great celeb sideboob pics. #bpcares
Ah, the fun we poke.
BP - "One of the World Leaders in Oil Spills" (Score:4, Funny)
BP - "One of the World Leaders in Oil Spills and Public Relations Damage Control"
Have you spilled oil today? Our P.R. team can help!
Speaking of which... (Score:4, Funny)
Related: http://digg.com/comedy/Massive_Flow_Of_Bull****_Continues_To_Gush_From_BP [digg.com]
Re:Brings a tear to my eye... (Score:2, Funny)
Where's The Doctor when you need him?
Apparently the only thing BP can plug up... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:have they bought "Beyond Pitiful" yet? (Score:3, Funny)
Before you know it they'll buy other applicable terms like "criminal negligence" as well.
Re:have they bought "Beyond Pitiful" yet? (Score:3, Funny)
It's like the Mythical Man-Month -- Just throwing resources at the problem isn't necessarily going to make it better, and could well make it worse.
I'm not sure about that. While Brooks was talking about software and computer hardware engineers, I'm sure you weren't literally talking about plugging the hole with BP engineers. It would be more logical to use BP executives, since they know more about oil flow than computer nerds. Just a hypothesis to test: We would have to actually try stuffing the pipe with BP executives to see if that would stop the flow. And unlike Brooks's theory, I suspect using more BP executives would improve improve the pipe somewhat linearly. Once you run out of C-level and VP-level BP people you could move on to Haliburton.
I suppose getting past IRB on that little science experiment would be rather difficult, however.
Re:have they bought "Beyond Pitiful" yet? (Score:3, Funny)
They already tried that - remember the 'junk shot'? They even let the execs bring their golf stuff along.