Vodafone's Otello draws a blank on Chancellor Angela Merkel query

If there's one person at CeBIT you don't want to not recognize, it's German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, we can only assume that Vodafone booth workers were left with their tails stuck between their legs after said figure gave its recently announced picture-based search engine a go. Upon Otella returning nothing after a picture was presumably snapped of Merkel, she quickly asserted: "I am not in the database." Better still, she continued by proclaiming: "That's a major gap." Heck, maybe she should be happy -- after all, Vodafone's set to trial the service with Europe's "best selling tabloid," and not being in there would most certainly be a good thing.

[Familyguyrokz @ Mar 5th 2008 8:39AM]

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[bucyaj @ Mar 5th 2008 8:48AM]

what a fool

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[webon @ Mar 5th 2008 9:09PM]

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[Neoprimal @ Mar 5th 2008 9:07AM]

At least she took it gracefully. But she's right on the money, that IS a major gap. I wonder if searching by a snapshot of Paris Hilton would return results? That would add insult to injury though...

[Cornelius @ Mar 5th 2008 11:23AM]

You mean to tell me that the picture of George W. Bush giving her a backrub never made it into German tabloids?

[mail.bela @ Mar 5th 2008 9:37AM]

Even funnier was her reply to a Sony Ericsson representative showing her a new mobile phone. He said: "This is High-End", and she replied:

"Like the iPhone?"

[Tameside Eye @ Mar 5th 2008 9:53AM]

She looks like Darth Sidious.

[FrankTheCrank @ Mar 5th 2008 9:58AM]

I would NOT hit that.

[Tim @ Mar 5th 2008 10:36AM]

I bet someone got their butt chewed over that one.

pwned

[EMaster @ Mar 5th 2008 11:19AM]

That bitch makes me want to put the wall backup. She's east German too.

[David Vogt @ Mar 5th 2008 12:45PM]

Wow, what a god-awful thing to say.

[IndiaTech @ Mar 5th 2008 1:07PM]

Hmm. Look at it this way. Which is better?
Otello returns a blank OR
Otello returns a list of German sadistic dominatrix porn site.

[jason @ Mar 5th 2008 3:34PM]

I think her picture may have broken the database, so they simply omitted her in an act of self preservation.

I can hear the Voda employee now..."Can I get a hand with this paper bag?"