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  • Google Purge!

    The Onion strikes again...

    Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index
    August 31, 2005 | Issue 41•35


    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Executives at Google, the rapidly growing online-search company that promises to "organize the world's information," announced Monday the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index.

    "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."

    The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which catalogs the entire surface of the Earth using high-resolution satellites.

    As a part of Purge's first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.

    "A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest," John Battelle wrote in his widely read "Searchblog." "Thanks to Google Purge, you'll never have to worry that your search has missed some obscure book, because that book will no longer exist. And the same goes for movies, art, and music."

    "Book burning is just the beginning," said Google co-founder Larry Page. "This fall, we'll unveil Google Sound, which will record and index all the noise on Earth. Is your baby sleeping soundly? Does your high-school sweetheart still talk about you? Google will have the answers."

    Page added: "And thanks to Google Purge, anything our global microphone network can't pick up will be silenced by noise-cancellation machines in low-Earth orbit."

    As a part of Phase One operations, Google executives will permanently erase the hard drive of any computer that is not already indexed by the Google Desktop Search.

    "We believe that Google Desktop Search is the best way to unlock the information hidden on your hard drive," Schmidt said. "If you haven't given it a try, now's the time. In one week, the deleting begins."

    Although Google executives are keeping many details about Google Purge under wraps, some analysts speculate that the categories of information Google will eventually index or destroy include handwritten correspondence, buried fossils, and private thoughts and feelings.

    The company's new directive may explain its recent acquisition of Celera Genomics, the company that mapped the human genome, and its buildup of a vast army of laser-equipped robots.

    "Google finally has what it needs to catalog the DNA of every organism on Earth," said analyst Imran Kahn of J.P. Morgan Chase. "Of course, some people might not want their DNA indexed. Hence, the robot army. It's crazy, it's brilliant—typical Google."

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    Google executives oversee the first stage of Google Purge.
    Google's robot army is rumored to include some 4 million cybernetic search-and-destroy units, each capable of capturing and scanning up to 100 humans per day. Said co-founder Sergey Brin: "The scanning will be relatively painless. Hey, it's Google. It'll be fun to be scanned by a Googlebot. But in the event people resist, the robots are programmed to liquify the brain."

    Markets responded favorably to the announcement of Google Purge, with traders bidding up Google's share price by $1.24, to $285.92, in late trading after the announcement. But some critics of the company have found cause for complaint.

    "This announcement is a red flag," said Daniel Brandt, founder of Google-Watch.org. "I certainly don't want to accuse of them having bad intentions. But this campaign of destruction and genocide raises some potential privacy concerns."

    Brandt also expressed reservations about the company's new motto. Until yesterday's news conference, the company's unofficial slogan had been "Don't be evil." The slogan has now been expanded to "Don't be evil, unless it's necessary for the greater good."

    Co-founders Page and Brin dismiss their critics.

    "A lot of companies are so worried about short-term reactions that they ignore the long view," Page said. "Not us. Our team is focused on something more than just making money. At Google, we're using technology to make dreams come true."

    "Soon," Brin added, "we'll make dreams clickable, or destroy them forever."


    "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

  • #2
    I for one welcome our new Google overlords

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    • #3
      I'd take them over the current administration any day.
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      • #4
        I think I laughed hardest at this spot-on imitation of contemporary journalistic spinelessness:

        "This announcement is a red flag," said Daniel Brandt, founder of Google-Watch.org. "I certainly don't want to accuse of them having bad intentions. But this campaign of destruction and genocide raises some potential privacy concerns."
        "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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        • #5
          I found this funnier:

          At Google, we're using technology to make dreams come true."

          "Soon," Brin added, "we'll make dreams clickable, or destroy them forever."

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          • #6
            Yeah, that's a great one.

            I just imagined Brin's smiling baby face turning really evil and angry for a second, when saying "destroy them forever.", and then returning to normal.
            urgh.NSFW

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            • #7
              This is even better:

              Suicide Bomber Killed En Route By Car Bomb

              August 3, 2005 | Issue 41•31

              BAGHDAD—Terrorist cells in Baghdad are in mourning for suicide bomber Ahmed al-Khalaf, 19, who was killed by a car bomb Monday, 200 yards from an Iraqi police station, his intended target.
              Enlarge ImageSuicide Bomber Killed En Route By Car Bomb

              Sources within the insurgency said al-Khalaf was "on his way to becoming a glorious martyr" when he was struck down by the car-bomb explosion. Twenty-three other civilians were also killed.

              "What kind of God allows the death of people who are on their way to kill innocent people?" insurgent leader Abdulwahid al-Tomizie said. "On the one hand, I am elated that the car-bomb explosion was successful, but the loss of the suicide bomber is a tragedy, as is the survival of all the innocent people he might have killed."

              According to al-Tomizie, al-Khalaf could have killed as many as 40 innocent people, had his life not been cut short.

              "It is tragic that al-Khalaf died seven minutes sooner than he intended," said Hassan Abdul Aziz, leader of a local cabal of Sunni separatists. "To think that he was just yards from his intended target. Our thoughts and prayers are with his terrorist cell."

              No insurgent groups have claimed responsibility for the car bomb, although as many as 18 separate insurgency factions have vowed to carry on the fight in al-Khalaf's memory.
              Sorry no link...

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              • #8
                Don't be evil, unless it's for the greater good.
                He's got the Midas touch.
                But he touched it too much!
                Hey Goldmember, Hey Goldmember!

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                • #9
                  I tried Googling myself but some other guy keeps coming up.
                  How do i get indexed?
                  INDEX ME!!!!
                  What?

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                  • #10
                    Love the new look.

                    Here's my favorite of the week:

                    AMERICAN VOICES

                    Pat Robertson's Remarks
                    Televangelist Pat Robertson recently called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. What do you think?



                    Earl Keener,
                    Technical Writer
                    "Pat Robertson, as a Christian, a politician, or a pundit, is a living argument for the separation of head and body."
                    "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                    "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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                    • #11


                      Google's secret mastermind
                      Attached Files
                      To us, it is the BEAST.

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                      • #12
                        Sava, that's AWSOME

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                        • #13
                          awsome avatar idea
                          Co-Founder, Apolyton Civilization Site
                          Co-Owner/Webmaster, Top40-Charts.com | CTO, Apogee Information Systems
                          giannopoulos.info: my non-mobile non-photo news & articles blog

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                          • #14
                            Google is Microsofting itself
                            I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

                            Asher on molly bloom

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by VetLegion
                              Sava, that's AWSOME
                              thanks



                              victim of google purge ------>
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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