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I think that's pretty funny and not particularly malevolent. It's a fake alt rock band called Zendesk. It's obviously tongue-in-cheek and not going to deceive a

I think that's pretty funny and not particularly malevolent. It's a fake alt rock band called Zendesk. It's obviously tongue-in-cheek and not going to deceive anyone. Also, anytime I search for "X alternative" the results are all AI-generated garbage anyway, so I'd welcome something quirky and original like this in my results.

IAmGraydon 2y ago
> It's obviously tongue-in-cheek and not going to deceive anyone. Yes, that’s it. They paid their marketing team to do this to be funny.
- mtlynch 2y ago
  It seems like you're being sarcastic, but I think that's really what happened. I think it's much more about getting press for doing something funny than it is about having a meaningful impact on cluttering search results. It's the same reason why Google paid its marketing team to make a promo for Gmail Blue (back in 2013 when Google was still doing legitimately funny fake promos): https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/ https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/