WOW. There is no magic Google website. Trump catches Google off guard.

[underpants]

Thanks to DU'ers pointing this out on another thread.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213092988



Trump Caught Google Off Guard With a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement
Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was.

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US government’s coronavirus testing apparatus, which has lagged badly behind other developed nations, would soon get an assist from Google. The search and advertising giant will create a website, Trump said, that would help Americans figure out if they need a test for the virus, and if so where they can find one.

The only problem: There is no nationwide site like the one Trump described. And Google had no idea the president was going to mention one.

A source at Google tells WIRED that company leadership was surprised that Trump announced anything about the initiative at the press conference. What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweeted in a statement. “Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.”

Even that, though, was not the original plan. The Verge reported Friday afternoon that Verily had intended the site for health care workers only. After Trump unexpectedly publicized the effort, Verily decided it will let anyone visit it, but can still only provide people with testing site information in the San Francisco area.

Google did not respond to requests for comment. A Verily spokesperson characterized the intention of the site differently from the Verge report. "We were initially planning to focus on highest risk populations, which includes healthcare workers—but this was not solely intended for them," the company said. "We are collaborating with organizations like Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp as part of this initiative, and local organizations to determine what will work best. At Verily, we are focused on developing a tool to help triage individuals for testing."

The White House declined to comment on the record, but did not dispute that Google was unaware that Trump would announce the site Friday.

[kacekwl]

1. I'm sure they will jump all over it now

as so not to make president dumb shit bad.

[underpants]

3. Too late

Like a lot of people, probably, I wanted to give this website a look this morning. It was mentioned so many times and with such glowing praise (ok I should have known SOMETHING was afoot) I didn't even consider it was a complete pile of BS.

It's the reverse Boy Cries Wolf - at some point something has to be true.

[Renew Deal]

2. This happened because things have to be explained like he is 6 years old.

Nuance isn’t his thing.

[underpants]

5. This isn't nuance

This is like a childhood fantasy babbled in public

[Grammy23]

4. One of the reasons that tRump is so dangerous as the President

Is that he is not afraid to make things up on the fly to make himself LOOK and sound like he knows what he is talking about. It is his go to strategy to sound knowledgeable and informed. With a tiny bit of information he can weave a tale out of whole cloth and appear to be a leader. He also does it with extreme confidence so a gullible person is easily duped by his smooth delivery of a huge lie.

At a time when we need honesty and facts, he is continuing to sow half truths and outright lies to a public that is confused, afraid and uncertain of what we need to be doing. It is the price we are paying for having a malignant narcissist in charge. He will use any method that comes into his head to make himself look and sound better. Congress (The Senate) could have spared us this nightmare by removing him a few weeks ago, but they chose to continue the BIG LIE in order to save their own hides.

tRump has bitten off way more than even he can fake his way through. People, even people who voted for him, will catch on as this crisis deepens and he flounders and flails to avoid being blamed for ANY of it. He will never ever accept responsibility for the crisis and the response to it, and that is rather unpresidential to be so irresponsible. He will also struggle to show one ounce of empathy. I guess the ultimate payback to tRump would be for him to become a Covid-19 victim or for his precious Ivanka to get sick with the virus.

[crickets]

8. You are spot on. I don't why people keep listening to him-- there's no point. nt

[mitch96]

6. How much you want to bet he will blame Walmart for not getting the job done...

Not his fault........
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[denem]

7. Lying sack of shit!