Thursday, August 2, 2007

Google Humor by The Onion

Satire newspaper The Onion has covered Google quite a bit in the past. Here’s a selection of their stories (I’ve threwn one in about Yahoo too!):

• Google Blaster Over Privacy (Survey)
  “This news has definitely made me think twice about providing my credit card number along with each search query.”
• Google Steps in to Help the U.S. With Google Navy (Audio)
  “Google’s fleet of naval warships will report immediately to Annapolis, Maryland, for deployment...”
• Visit To Google Earth Reveals House Is On Fire (Picture)
• Google Buys YouTube (Survey)
  “That’s nearly a dollar for every video of a cat falling off a bed.”
• Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index (Article)
  “’Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself,’ said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. ’Soon, it will be.’”
• Google Losing Steam (Survey)
  “This surely proves what I’ve been saying all along about the Internet being a passing fad.”
• Google Refuses To Turn Over Records To Government (Survey)
  “Those are some ballsy multi-billionaires.”
• Google in 2005 (List)
  “Patent the idea of looking for something”
• Yahoo Launches Soul-Search Engine (Article)
  “Capable of navigating the billions of thoughts, experiences, and emotions that make up the human psyche, the new Yahoo soul-search engine helps users find what’s deep inside them quickly and easily”
• Viacom Demands YouTube Pull 400,000 Ex-TV Viewers From Its Site (Article)
  “These viewers clearly belong to Viacom and its related entertainment subsidiaries”
• Apple’s New iPhone (List)
  “Exclusive link to Google Street View so you can watch yourself using your iPhone at all times”
• YouTube Clamps Down (Survey)
  “Finally I’ll have a single source for all the videos I have no desire to watch.”
• Sean Penn Demands To Know What Asshole Took SeanPenn@gmail.com (Article)
  “In an impassioned 1,900-word open letter published in Monday’s Washington Post, actor-director Sean Penn urged the unknown person who registered the e-mail address SeanPenn@gmail.com to ’come forward immediately, rather than wallowing in the shame and ignominy of fraud.’”
• Clinton Googles Self (Article)
  “Citing curiosity as his primary motive, Bill Clinton typed his own name into the popular search engine Google.com during a lull in his daily activities, the former president reported Monday.”

Google Humor by The Onion by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (3)

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