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Does Google = God?

lgreco writes "In an op/ed for the NYT, Thomas Friedman wonders "Is Google God?" Interesting article that disseminates things mostly known to and hopefully well understood by the Slashdot readership. The fact that such commentary made it to the NYT op/ed pages is remarkable." It's the NYT, so a free registration is required.

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  1. No, google is inferior by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
  2. O Mighty Google... by James+Littiebrant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give us now our dayly searches, forgive us of our articles, as we have put them in our keywords. Please O Google grant me now a privilige to use your mighty powers to find the answers to my searches.

  3. ODDLY ENOUGH by YOU+ARE+SO+FIRED! · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does this. Weird.

  4. Syntax Error by BuddaPxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does Google = God? Yes. Always.

    Does Google == God? Yes. Could change...but not likely :)

    1. Re:Syntax Error by Ratcrow · · Score: 5, Funny

      If God == 0, then Google = God would be false.

      Then again, if you believe that God is real, or at least a float, then the specific test that God == 0.000000 is likely to come back true. Now, the real question is whether having strcmp("Google", "God") > 0 being true is a serious theological problem.

  5. Still Waiting... by Hecateus · · Score: 3, Funny

    While Google is the first thing I look at when I start up my browser... ...I am still waiting for Goollot. ;)

  6. Don't give so much credit by SunPin · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...specualtion by a talking head tech pundit...

    Thomas Friedman is the official gargoyle of the state. He's not a tech by any stretch of the imagination. I suspect he just lost a bet with someone who said he couldn't write an article without mentioning 9/11.

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    Laws are for people with no friends.
  7. Drugs are bad mmmkay? by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires.

    Drugs will do that to you sometimes, but the important thing is not to try and write articles and stuff in that "bent" state of mind. In my case, these delusions of grandeur usually pass in a few hours time. A good night's sleep should help too.

    Peace \\//

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  8. Re:This is a fluff article. by suss · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and how in future everybody will be connected to everybody else.

    And it will be called "the great duck tape disaster of 2032"...!

  9. OMG! by borgdows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here is the results on GoogleFight :

    google is god = 157049 results
    google is evil = 204364 results

    Conclusion : Google is NOT God, Google is EVIL!! We are doomed!!

  10. Re:Google IS God by jasontwarnock · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know if Google is God, but I do know that I accepted him as my personal savior.

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    :wq
  11. Stop you heathen!!!! by ShatteredDream · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you not know that Google is powered by Python, the living software symbol of the tempter of the fall of Adam and Eve?

  12. GW Bush reacts. by twitter · · Score: 4, Funny
    Note the last paragraph about the effectiveness of Osama bin Laden's recruiting videos, and the possibility of targeting them precisely via broadband video.

    GW Bush: Get me some of that broadband video! I'm so sick of targeting Ossama Bin Laden only to hit a camel in the ass. That Google thing sucks. 2,900 answers but not one of them knows where I can find that asshole.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  13. Curious, I just dreamt that Google was the Devil by LiberalApplication · · Score: 3, Funny
    I kid you not, this is an entirely true story.

    I awoke this morning from a dream where Google was powered by some ancient, evil, seductive force. Just as I often am in real life, in my dream I found myself curious about some random issue, and decided to research it via Google. In this instance, I was curious about what the lives of precious-stone-traders/exchangers were like, how they travelled, and how they moved their goods.

    When I opened a browser to http://www.google.com, I suddenly found myself transported to a dark room, one which felt, smelt, and looked as though it was within a long abandoned motel in a rainy, cold, climate. A grimy stone slab of roughly 4:3 dimensions lay on a table before me, glistening with condensation.

    A beautiful woman appeared, dressed seductively in red and black, and bade me to enter my query. Somehow, I knew to put my fingertip to the slab, and the moment I made contact, wispy shadows swirled out from within its crevices and surrounded my fingertip. They nipped at it, they pierced the skin, and with my blood, I scrawled out, "precious stone jewel exchange trader carrier lifestyle travel".

    The shadows at once covered my bloody query, writhed and congealed and when they finally withdrew, I found that the writing had been rearranged to read, "I'm feeling lucky". I screamed in terror and pounded on the message with my fists, sending dark red droplets flying from the stone.

    I looked up to see the woman smiling. When I returned my gaze to the stone slab, I saw the shadows slowly etching out a shape, simple, symmetrical. Trickles of black ran down the face of the stone from its far side, creating soft curves. It... it was a vase, with a notch in its base. It slowly filled with color, a light sort of beige, taking on a photographic quality and it was then that I realized... it wasn't a vase, it was a top-down view of some chick taking it up the ass.