{"id":337767,"date":"2010-02-18T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e2012877b5ef8b970c"},"modified":"2010-02-18T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:41:39","slug":"has-google-replaced-microsoft-as-the-de-facto-evil-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337767","title":{"rendered":"Has Google replaced Microsoft as the de facto evil corporation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"205\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8pt 0pt 0px; float: left;\" width=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGwYrZLvvJU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZGwYrZLvvJU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Is Google the new Microsoft? This video from Comedy.com certainly seems to be channeling a kind of rage against the Google machine that harkens back to the late &#8217;90s, when many thought Microsoft would soon control the world. Here, a putative Google spokesman responds to complaints about Google Buzz by reminding people that Google can kill you and then giving the camera the finger. (&quot;Index this!&quot;) The script then lays out a very Microsoft-like indictment: &quot;We have never had a single, original idea ever. Our business model is to find something successful that already exists and then use our trillions of dollars to make a Google version. MapQuest sure seems to be popular and profitable. Boom! Google Maps.&quot; He goes on to say that when Google can&#8217;t figure out how to copy something, like YouTube, it just buys it. &quot;We may look innocent with our cutesy holiday logos and April Fool&#8217;s pranks, but we run your fucking lives,&quot; he explains. &quot;We are fucking Google. If we tell you to buzz, you will buzz.&quot; On a related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/video\/google_opt_out_feature_lets_users\" >check out this <em>Onion<\/em> video<\/a> in which Google offers to protect your privacy by relocating you to a remote village. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Google the new Microsoft? This video from Comedy.com certainly seems to be channeling a kind of rage against the Google machine that harkens back to the late &#8217;90s, when many thought Microsoft would soon control the world. Here, a putative Google spokesman responds to complaints about Google Buzz by reminding people that Google can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}