Google Home might not be the most pop voice assistant to offer convenient entropy in central for ream of personal datum , but it looks like the first to serve ads directly into users ’ living room .
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Bryson Meunier , a Chicago - based SEO marketing professional , filmed a bizarre fundamental interaction with one the search giant ’s friendly automaton obelisk earlier today . After Meunier need what his twenty-four hour period “ was like , ” Google ’s noesis cylinder responded with the current meter , local atmospheric condition , and data about his commute — before launching into a 15 - second gear advertizing for Beauty and the Beast complete with musical escort and sound effects .
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When asked for comment , Google pass on the following statement to The Verge and Search Engine Land : “ This is n’t an advert ; the beauty in the Assistant is that it invites our partner to be our client and share their tales . ” We have n’t heard back from Google yet , but they ’ll likely send the same thing , so permit ’s dissect .
To be vindicated , this is utterly an advertising . It promote people to commute money for a product , is wedged in the middle of unrelated material , and uses a dissimilar soundtrack to call care to the fact that it ’s not touch on to the main message , a proficiency used by many podcasts . And no matter how much tail - covering the word “ partners ” is supposed to be doing here , Disney is not listed as a partner companyon Google ’s own web site .
Delving past the obvious obfuscation , even the statement reads just like advertizing copy . Beauty?Be our guest ? Google must be trolling . To which I say both “ hah ” and “ have sex off . ”
Meunier ’s experience is n’t an isolated incident , as it waseasily replicatedby Marketingland ’s Danny Sullivan . If this heralds the dayspring of an advertising - supported hereafter for digital assistants , I guess the only surprisal is that we did n’t see it coming sooner .
Update 3/16/17 6:13 EDT : Business Insider writer Steve Kovachobtained a statementfrom a Google interpreter who claims the 15 - irregular audio frequency clip encouraging Home users to see Beauty and the Beast “ was n’t intend to be an advertizing . ” Huh . The spokesperson went on to say the follow [ emphasis ours ] :
What ’s circulating online was a part of our My Day feature , where after provide helpful information about your day , we sometimes call out timely cognitive content . We ’re continuing to try out with new ways to turn up unique content for substance abuser and we could have done better in this case .
I , for one , ca n’t hold off to have Google airfoil “ timely content ” for other things I can pay money for .
[ The Verge , Marketingland , Business Insider ]
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