Why... this is my favourite spot from last year's Super Bowl, thanks for asking.
Call it 'storytelling by other means'; the art of telling a story by unconventional means. Such as... say... a TV spot that tells a story, not with actors, dialogue or on-screen text, but by queries on a search engine.
Or Hemingway's famous "shortest story ever": "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
It was part of the genius of Alfred Hitchcock, who opened Dial M for Murder with a Ray Milland / Grace Kelly sequence that told us everything we need to know about the main characters- without a word of dialogue.
Hitchcock did the same again in Rear Window- where in one opening shot we learn that Jimmy Stewart's character is an accomplished magazine photographer, that he was working too close to a crash at a motor race, that he broke his leg (and still got a great photo), and that he was cooped up in a wheelchair in his apartment.
Not a word of dialogue in either of 'em.
This Google spot not only tells a story, but- as anyone with a marketing eye notices immediately- demonstrates the product in doing so.
'Nuff to leave you speechless.
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