Viral Video: The Google Goats Make It Onto NBC Nightly News–What Will Facebook Do to Counter?

April 23, 2010 at 12:11 am PT

Not content to lord their environmental superiority over all of Silicon Valley, the Google Goats went national last night on “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.”

Here’s the video from the television news show of the goats chomping away on the grass in a field on the search giant’s campus in Mountain View, Calif., oblivious to the two-legged nerds all around them.

It’s their second year at Google and they’ll move on soon.

What’s very clear is that Facebook is now going to have to one-up Google with its own energy-saving lawn initiative, such as a swarm of locusts.

Which, if you really think about it, is a pretty good metaphor for Facebook’s new “Like” button.

Here’s the NBC video:

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http://blogspot.fluidnewmedia.com Ahad Bokhari

Hi Kara,

Loved the pics of the goats, and the metaphors! LOL. Btw there is a major flaw in the “like-button” and a field of play for the content-farmers and spammers alike. Thought it might interest you: http://arnab.org/blog/deceivin.....ok-…

The clash of the titans is really heating up…
http://blog.macb.net macbeach

Yes, I think locusts is an appropriate metaphor for Facebook.

(recently ex-FB user)