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Google used this woman's name on all its templates – she gets messages daily
- danso 10y ago> A Google spokesperson says that the company decided to use that name instead of something like John Smith or Jane in the spirit of creativity, but the decision ultimately caused the real Casey Baumer to receive dozens of angry or confused messages. > She wondered whether Google had actually Googled the name before they used it - and wished it had. Kind of a baffling choice by Google, who of all companies should know how much easier it is to target specific people with an uncommon name and how even uncommon combinations will have actual results (due to the vast amount of names and databases traversed by its crawlers)...and of course, how you'll have at least thousands of dumb/unhinged users when you have hundreds of millions of them.
- thex10 10y agoWhat a situation. I can't help but marvel at how so many Google Docs users don't understand they're looking at a not real example document. Maybe they should've used a common-but-famous name instead ("George Washington").