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Who's Afraid of Google?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-the-end-there-can-be-only-one dept.

Khuffie writes "Wired has an interesting article about who's afraid of Google: in short, almost everyone! "Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize the world's information. High-minded as that sounds, Google's ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft.""

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  1. Twilight Zone: It's a Google Life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mr. Fremont: It's snowing outside! Google, are you making it snow?
    Google: Yes, I'm making it snow.
    Mr. Fremont: Why that'll ruin half the crops! You know that, don't you, half the crops! That's what that... But it's good that you're making it snow, Google, it's real good.

    Narrator: No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special search engines, little Google, age 6, who lives on the internet in a place that used to be the Web. And if by some strange chance you should run across it, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Google you can be sure of one thing: you have entered the Twilight Zone.

  2. Well... by Red+Samurai · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new information-finding overlord.

    1. Re:Well... by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Funny

      Soviet Russian #1: Who is this Red Samurai?
      Soviet Russian #2: Type his name into Google.
      Soviet Russian #1: Ah ha! I have found him!

      In America, you use Google to find them,
      In Soviet Russa, they use Google to find YOU!

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    2. Re:Well... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny

      I, for one, welcome our new information-finding overlord.

      Sorry, you're 8 months late. Our information-finding overlord just told me.

  3. Re:GoogleBase? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you think the "Base" means?

    Does it mean that it are belong to us?

  4. Results by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Results 1 - 10 of about 3,200,000 for whos afraid of google?. (0.05 seconds)

    Apparantly lots of people, but even more shockingly:

    Results 1 - 10 of about 1,780,000 for whos afraid of microsoft?. (0.20 seconds)

    Time to be afraid?

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    1. Re:Results by spuke4000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think most distrubingly:

      Results 1 - 10 of about 7,300,000 for who's the boss

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  5. Re:Learn how to search by miffo.swe · · Score: 1, Funny

    He used MSN Search!

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  6. Not afraid yet by nnnneedles · · Score: 4, Funny
    I will only be afraid when they get into the AI field and bring us brain.google.com.

    Or.. even worse:

    braaaaaaains.google.com

    Until those happen, I am not afraid!

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  7. We are the Boorgle by gomel · · Score: 5, Funny
    "We are the Boorgle. Lower your firewalls and surrender your servers.
     
    We will add your informational and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to search with us.
     
    Resistance is Froogle. You will be indexed."
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  8. Re:GoogleBase? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Coffee -> nose -> projectile =>> monitor $%#@ (Not pretty.)

  9. Re:They'd have an uphill battle by Suhas · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Jay Leno is your sole barometer on pop culture then you have bigger things to worry about than Google Vs. eBay.

  10. Re:Learn how to search by whitehatlurker · · Score: 4, Funny
    Who's afraid of /.

    Hmmm. We need better PR.

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    .. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
  11. Re:I believe it by simonecaldana · · Score: 2, Funny

    "B to P"? Explain, please.
    Business to Phisher.