New Alert Messages - Communicating Heart To Heart
Recently I came across an Alert Message while I was trying to upload an attachment file using Gmail’s offline facility. An alert message popped up, which said, “Adding attachments while Offline or Flanky Mode is currently not Supported. We know this is tooootally lame. But don’t forget, Aufait.in Mail didn’t have basic stuff like drafts when it launched. We’ll keep working on it.”
Google Alert Messages - Setting Standards
Google was communicating to the Heart. What a perfect hit (Ek dum perfect - the Indian way)! Google went the extra mile to communicating to the “Heart”. It was a beautifully personalized message, as accurate as it should be, that captivated my heart. That’s what I call a Heart-to-Heart communication. We in our daily business life, come up with many new ideas for implementation to our applications. We think over it, discuss over it, over and over again, when finally it is decided to be trashed. And why? Because it does not meet the so-called “Universally Accepted Web Application Standards”! Alas, all that “universal” thinking is gone with the wind!!!
What sets Google apart from the rest is, when they follow their own way of “Setting the standards and let the world follow”. I think we too need to adopt The Bold Google Way. Jai Ho Goooooogle!!!!!!.
Ever noticed the button saying “I’m Feeling Lucky” on google.com ?
This button does nothing special but simply skips the search results page and goes directly to the first ranked page. Its handy if you’re fairly confident that the first result in the search engine is going to be exactly the page you want to find.
What I mean to say is, I’ve always admired the way this button is named. They could have come up with more than a dozen technical names for the same. If I were to name it, I’d rather stamp anything like, ‘Pick the first’, ‘Skip the results’, ‘Direct hit’ or something that emphasizes the action the button is supposed to do.
By naming it so, Google has set out a whole new way of ‘conveyance’ and this got to be one of the hidden reasons why Google is so much popular.