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In Google We Trust

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

firstadopter.com writes "The New York Times (registration needed) writes about how far Google has penetrated our culture (soul sucking "Free" registration required) in the last six years with the pros and cons of its success. It's amazing to think 200 million searches are done on the search engine each day on an index of 6 billion pages."

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  1. WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, this is BIG news!

    People use Google!

    Calling the f'ing newspaper!

  2. Re:I stopped using google. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That must hurt them deeply. I bet they miss you.

  3. Link to Google, free of karma-whoring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    www.google.com

  4. Mirror (if we slashdot google) by itsme1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here is the cached page if we ./ google:

    http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J :w ww.google.com/+google&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

    Wait ...

    1. Re:Mirror (if we slashdot google) by hikerhat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Notice the disclaimer on the google cache of google: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.

  5. Re:Its impessive. by lxt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow I don't think "Just Dogpile it" would have the same effect :)

  6. All Hype by johnhennessy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I preface this by saying Google is probably the only search engine I use at the moment but ...

    This stinks of hype. With an IPO due later this year, a established news source writing at lengths about the wonders of Google sounds a bit fishy. I began to wonder reading the article - who exactly really wrote this...

    Hopefully its just the paranoid part of me.

    Some one, please, prove me wrong.

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  7. So who are all these Dave Gorman trolls mentioned? by janbjurstrom · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the article:

    In Britain, a former mathematics student named Dave Gorman has created a popular play, a book and a television series based on his "Googlewhack" adventure, in which he chased down 54 other Dave Gormans, all while trolling you know where. [emphasis mine]

    My interpretation of the sentence was: hmm, strange that so many Slashdot trolls share the name "Dave Gorman".

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  8. Not soooo amazing... by Rooktoven · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...It's amazing to think 200 million searches are done on the search engine each day on an index of 6 billion pages."

    Less impressive when you realize that 150 million of those searches are for Britney and Janet...

    (I kid, google is the most esssential tool for my job...)

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  9. Re:My chief google frustration is... by chronus22 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait...I think I might have figured out your problem. Have your recent search strings been similar to "penis enlargement" or "free Nigerian money"?

  10. Re:My chief google frustration is... by ZB+Mowrey · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, I was hoping to patent "a method for spending Free Nigerian Money on Penis Enlargement products in a distributed-computing environment."

    1. Get free Nigerian Money.
    2. There is no other step.
    3. Profit.

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  11. Re:Its impessive. by DunbarTheInept · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft will never be a verb.
    I've heard it used as an expletive

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