Gaga Sends Google into Tizzy

Google (News - Alert) has always appeared to those of us laypeople trolling its search results as this mystical giant of Internet wizardry, changing its algorithms and smiting those with poor content at a moment’s notice, or taking command of the entire world’s mapping system with its Street Views app allowing you to view your own house via satellite. Let’s face it, we’re intimidated. But what intimidates Google? None other than the 5-foot-1-inch pop star herself, Lady Gaga.

Gaga’s presence at Google’s headquarters yesterday, Tuesday, March 22 caused a near uproar from the search engine’s employees as she arrived in her usual black leather garb and her recent statement black bangs to answer questions from Google’s Marissa Mayer. Googlers (Google employees) showed up to work that day in costume attire in true Gaga fashion.

Mayer used Google’s Moderator service on a giant screen behind Lady Gaga to stream videos from fans asking questions of the pop star about her new single “Born This Way,” how she was bullied as a child, and about the impact her international fame has had on her life.

Google stated, "The superstar wowed a crowd in a venue that was packed to the rafters with adoring Googlers. Googlers went Gaga, channeling their inner little monsters and donning everything from her signature bow-tie hair buns to Mother Monster costumes."

With encouraging words to her adoring fans from Google, the world’s most powerful search engine’s team watched the world’s most searched for person utter the words, “I see something so fearless and so special in my fans, but I also see something afraid, something that I was, something unsure, and I really encourage people to look into the darkness and look into places that you would not normally look…because that’s where the diamonds are hiding.”

Juliana Kenny graduated from the University of Connecticut with a double degree in English and French. After managing a small company for two years, she joined TMC (News - Alert) as a Web Editor for TMCnet. Juliana currently focuses on the call center and CRM industries, but she also writes about cloud telephony and network gear including softswitches.

Edited by Jennifer Russell