Behind The Google iPod Shuffle

Dec 27, 2006 at 8:59am ET by Barry Schwartz

As many of you know, Google (as other search engines) gave out holiday gifts, including a digital picture frame, a iPod Shuffle and other schwag. One person who got the iPod Shuffle gave us a behind the scenes look at the gift, literally. On the back of the iPod Shuffle, the engraved message reads “ooGleg thanks you!

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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5 COMMENTS ON Behind The Google iPod Shuffle

Matt Cutts, December 27th, 2006 at 11:37 am ET:

Hey, where’s the favicon for SEL? Inquiring minds want to see an icon! :)

rustybrick, December 27th, 2006 at 11:45 am ET:

How is that related to this post?

Danny is on vacation, Ill ask him to make one…

feedthebot, December 27th, 2006 at 6:19 pm ET:

The botom of my water bottle from Yahoo had this written on a sticker adhered to the bottom -

“California Proposition 65 Warning - All drinkware with colored decoration on the exterior contain lead. Lead compounds and/or Cadium are known to the state of California to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive Harm

IncrediBILL, December 27th, 2006 at 10:49 pm ET:

Glad I got the picture frame from Google as I loathe the iPod. After listening to my wife complain about iTunes and having to reformat her iPod a time or two, I’ll stick with my Zen micro and Yahoo Music thank you very much!

I’ll give them credit, the shuffled inscription is cute.

Danny Sullivan, December 28th, 2006 at 6:54 am ET:

Yep, I’m overdue to get the favicon going. Hang in there, Matt!

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