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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. Hey, here's an idea! by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about you REJECT all stories which require registration?

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  2. What exactly was this about? by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 1, Troll

    OKay, we read something about 9/11 in this article. I'm not sure what that was about. Then the author goes on to compare Google to God. This somehow comes from: God is wireless, knows everything, and is everywhere. Google can be accessed wirelessly, seems to know everything, and is everywhere. Right. Well, I don't really have much experience from finding out anything from God, but that's just fruity. He throws in some statistics about Internet growth then tries to horrify us with how we're going to see more people making bombs and trying to kill us (all thanks to the Internet of course). Oh yeah, and Osama bin Laden's highly effective recruiting videos are going to be "more effective over broadband." How he can conclude that from Google's top search criteria being about sex, jobs and wrestling, I do not know. I guess wrestling is a form of stupidity terrorism or something? What idiot posted this to the front page of Slashdot? That was the single most useless piece of writing I've ever seen.

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