Remember those floating Google barges that drummed up a lot of media attention?
It turns out they were floating retail showrooms that Google was planning to use in showcasing their products. A movable retail store basically.
Well, the Coast Guard bureaucrats got to it.
Techcrunch has the details, thanks to the FOIA:
Google and its contractor were criticized for trying to seek quick approvals for the project, and for undertaking “significant work” without first gaining the full consent of the Coast Guard.
The project was halted in September 2013, and — it appears — abandoned entirely, given that one barge has been scraped and the other is rusting in a California river delta.
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