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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. Article via CNN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/29/nyt.friedman/

  2. This is a fluff article. by Dthoma · · Score: 5, Informative

    It just has some vague statistics about increasing numbers of Google searches and DNS requests in the last three years, then some specualtion by a talking head tech pundit about how "the rate of technological integration has intensified" and how in future everybody will be connected to everybody else.

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  3. Summary by ergonal · · Score: 5, Informative
    Summary:

    I thought this article was supposed to be about Google and God, but it was more about wi-fi and how wi-fi combined with Google will allow you to "find anything, anywhere, anytime". But it THEN goes on about how broadband adoption will allow al-Qaeda will be able to more easily send recruitment videos using video-on-demand. Of course, it mentions 9/11, as expected. It also says that America has to take "it" seriously. Oh, and it states a couple of interesting statistics. Yay. There, now you don't need to RTFA.