Who's Afraid of Google?

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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Twilight Zone: It's a Google Life

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

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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?

We are the Boorgle

[gomel]

"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."