I didn't know Google had a store

http://www.googlestore.com/home.asp

by vaksel • 17 years ago

36 21 17 years ago

patio11• 17 years ago

It isn't technically Google-operated: they've outsourced it, which is fairly common for promotional goods. (McDonalds doesn't specialize in making T-shirts, after all.)

What I find hilarious is that if you buy an $8 T-shirt from Google you can actually talk to a human being about it, which makes that approximately the only Google-brand product sold for under $100,000 where that is reliably true.

tzury2• 17 years ago

now you know.

beastman82• 17 years ago

and knowing is half the battle

tzury2• 17 years ago

The funniest thing about it that it runs ASP on IIS.

l0nwlf• 17 years ago

For more details check this earlier post on HN : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652807 Apparantly google is outsourcing it to some 3rd party (in this case it's Merchandise Mania Ltd, Borehamwood, UK)

sh1mmer• 17 years ago

Quite a few companies have one. Yahoo! has one too (http://companystore.yahoo.com/).

I'm always amazed at the amount of people that stop in front of the Yahoo! sign to take photos.

dryicerx• 17 years ago

Pretty much any large branded company has their own store. Cisco has a physical store on campus that sell branded stuff.

tesseract• 17 years ago

Google has had a store for a long time. As far as I can tell it was at one time the only way they were making money - before AdWords and the Google Appliance were invented.

sho• 17 years ago

I didn't know Google Checkout was available in Australia now.

Pretty annoyed that they want CC details before telling me shipping, though. I wanted some Google grocery bags!

johnfn• 17 years ago

I don't know if this is exactly 'life changing'... although it is pretty cool.

onreact-com• 17 years ago

What? Google takes on Walmart?

Tichy• 17 years ago

Has anyone tried the bean bags - are they big enough for adults?

timcederman2• 17 years ago

Yes. I have one and it's great.

omnipresent1• 17 years ago

I love the "SPF 30 Google Sun Stick" :)

apgwoz2• 17 years ago

And the pens (http://www.googlestore.com/product.asp?catid=4&code=GO42...), at least the previous incarnation of them, write amazingly well. Does anyone know where I can get them cheaper (i.e. not GOOG branded)?

sokoloff2• 17 years ago

$5.20 (plus shipping) for 4 pens that "write amazingly well" is too much money? Why not just buy the ones you like and stop spending time/energy on the "problem"?

apgwoz2• 17 years ago

> $5.20 (plus shipping) for 4 pens that "write amazingly well" is too much money?

It's not about the money by any means. 1) I use a pen pretty rarely. 2) I'm not spending time or energy on the "problem."

timcederman2• 17 years ago

They also have an on-site store for guests.

Mark_B• 17 years ago

Forget Google merch...I want some "Bing Bling"

dzlobin• 17 years ago

Oh god, you guys KNOW the hackers at google have so many cheap google soiveniers at home.

I didn't know Google had a store

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