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Google’s Ethos, Applied to Dining?

8 points by robg 18y ago

narag 18y ago
It's funny that it's possible to use Google to make this kind of comparisons... but I've found that Google can't answer the question "how to send a bug report to GMail". There are links that take me to "help" pages (I don't want "help") that insist that I should subscribe to a mail list.
terpua 18y ago
Re-post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233207 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233207
coglethorpe 18y ago
This seems more like Wikipedia's ethos, rather than Google's. A Google restaurant wouldn't actually serve food, they'd just give you a list of (hopefully the best) places to get the meal you had requested. Of course there would be restaurants that would have bid get listed as well as ones who did black-hat SEO to get to the top. But often the top entry would be a Wikipedia restaurant. The food would be prepared by what seemed to be a big group of people, but it was really controlled by a small group of Chef Ramsey types who would slap the hands of wannabe chefs and quickly remove the side of lutefisk some joker slapped on your order of vegan tacos just before it left the kitchen.
teach 18y ago
"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that 'the people' do not want freedom. They want bread and circuses. They want workman's compensation and fringe benefits and TV. Give up your free will, give up your freedom to make choices, listen to the expert, and you will have three cars in your garage, steak on the table, and you will no longer have to suffer the agony of choice." -- Madeleine L'Engle, in "Walking on Water"
noonespecial 18y ago
I'd rather eat at "Apple applied to dining". Pick a few very specific dishes and the cook them exceptionally well. I wouldn't always be in the mood for Apple dining, but when I was, I'd know where to go.
- robg 18y ago
  And you'd pay out the ear for it!
- rw 18y ago
  I can just imagine Steve Jobs continuously yelling at the waiters and deputy chefs... ahhh.

8 points by robg 18y ago

narag 18y ago

It's funny that it's possible to use Google to make this kind of comparisons... but I've found that Google can't answer the question "how to send a bug report to GMail". There are links that take me to "help" pages (I don't want "help") that insist that I should subscribe to a mail list.

terpua 18y ago

Re-post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233207 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233207

coglethorpe 18y ago

This seems more like Wikipedia's ethos, rather than Google's. A Google restaurant wouldn't actually serve food, they'd just give you a list of (hopefully the best) places to get the meal you had requested. Of course there would be restaurants that would have bid get listed as well as ones who did black-hat SEO to get to the top. But often the top entry would be a Wikipedia restaurant. The food would be prepared by what seemed to be a big group of people, but it was really controlled by a small group of Chef Ramsey types who would slap the hands of wannabe chefs and quickly remove the side of lutefisk some joker slapped on your order of vegan tacos just before it left the kitchen.

teach 18y ago

"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that 'the people' do not want freedom. They want bread and circuses. They want workman's compensation and fringe benefits and TV. Give up your free will, give up your freedom to make choices, listen to the expert, and you will have three cars in your garage, steak on the table, and you will no longer have to suffer the agony of choice." -- Madeleine L'Engle, in "Walking on Water"

noonespecial 18y ago

I'd rather eat at "Apple applied to dining". Pick a few very specific dishes and the cook them exceptionally well. I wouldn't always be in the mood for Apple dining, but when I was, I'd know where to go.

robg 18y ago
And you'd pay out the ear for it!
rw 18y ago
I can just imagine Steve Jobs continuously yelling at the waiters and deputy chefs... ahhh.