Googlism

June 23rd, 2005

Ethics. It's all about choices.

I Googled “marketing.” Got about 227,000,000 results.

Then I Googled “ethics.” Got about 61,500,000 results.

Does this mean that as a society we’re nearly four times more concerned about marketing than we are about ethics?

(And yes, that’s an actual AdWords ad that came up. Good thing, too. Aren’t we all looking for a great deal on ethics? Must be all kinds of great stuff in that huge selection — maybe I can pick up a decent categorical imperative at a low bid.)

Then I Googled “marketing ethics.”

Got about 31,800 results.

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