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Does Google = God?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-job-was-supposed-to-be-mine dept.

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

    God wins

  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. 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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  5. 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 \\//

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  6. 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"...!

  7. 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.

  8. 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!!

  9. 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
  10. 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?

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  11. 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.