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Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index

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.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks at Google’s California headquarters (below).
“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.”
[…] 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.”

tratto da: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076/1

L’aspetto più buffo di tutto questa storia è che sono dovuto arrivare a leggerla fino quasi in fondo per autoconvincermi che fosse un paradossale gioco sarcastico… all’inizio temevo fosse realtà :)

Pare che l’azienda che possiede la tecnologia che permette di ricercare informazioni su internet nel modo più veloce ed efficacie, stia prendendo il posto di Microsoft dell’immaginario di molti acquisento il ruolo odiato del cattivo…

Update:
Ho appena trovato un altro articolo che prosegue questa tendenza: http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=54720&r=PI

In ogni caso, per essere sicuro, ho deciso di inviare un segno della mia esistenza alla volta di Plutone, sperando che non possa essere cancellato tanto facilmente da Google Purge :) .

La missione NEW HORIZONS della NASA, la prima sonda inviata dall’uomo per studiare da vicino Plutone si offre di ospitare gratuitamente il vostro nome per oltre 5miliardi di kilometri.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/scripts/addSignaturesForm.php
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ecard/certificate/reprint.php?insertedIDreprint=281199