Well, I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords ...Pleb wrote:Google's evil minions sucking the internet dry until they know everything about everything and everyone... Perhaps we need to spray them with some of this:
Bye bye Google [Bot]!
To be fair, without Google's spiders roaming around the web, people wouldn't be able to find anything. Which would kind of defeat the purpose of the internet.With technology companies, I always apply the Singularity rule: what would/will they be like if/when they achieve sentience and destroy civilisation as we know it? My list runs like this:
Google: probably V'Ger. Vast, world-consuming, but basically just curious/aggressively nosy. A tendency to digitise what it destroys.
Microsoft: the Borg. Specifically, the late-on crap Borg, easily defeated with a set of bathroom scales and a kirby grip.
Apple: BSG remake Cylons. Sleek, smooth, beautiful, inhuman, fanatic, deadly.
Facebook: Skynet. Remorseless, skull-crushing, responsible for global thermonuclear annihilation. Steel teeth in a rictus grin under a fake human exterior.
