Is Google God? A Comparison

The person who can compare a search engine with god needs shooting. Son of a (bitch/whore)

The previous comment shows something that God has that Google doesn't (yet?): angry and spiteful followers.

Indeed. I'm not sure if the person he's referring to is me or Thomas Friedman, who penned the Times op-ed piece. And Friedman didn't even make a Google-God comparison--he only quoted some guy who did (and in the process sounded like he'd been frozen in ice during the dot-com bubble and just recently thawed). On the other hand, asking "Is Google God?" was a clever, zeitgeist-aware move that got Friedman's editorial posted all over the net.

The point of my chart was to show how ridiculous the comparison really is--as everyone but the man quoted in the article and the anonymous coward above probably understands.

This is outrageous...
how can one compare a human creation with his Creator...?
and Gene i fully agree with that last line of ur last comment... :)

I say Google is as good a god as any!

Interestingly enough, we seem to be asking whether we can create (a) god. Any definition of god would have to be incomplete, right? Just to be able to define god would make the definer close to being equal, if not equal. That is not to mention the ability to create god. Obviously, we can create things that quickly become more powerful than us (i.e., nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, etc.). But to say that anyone could create "God" sounds like the reversal of irreversable roles: creator - creation.

Your dimensions of comparison don't really seem to be stringent. However, when looking at Google search results with commercially relevant search terms you will see rather quickly that Google delivers results of very low quality. Clever search engine optimization companies are able to manipulate the results so easily that you cannot even call Google "God-like", not even to think about the "Creator" himself.

Google is God? This is a bit strange in a time where more and more people claim Google beeing Evil ;)

Well, you could take a leaf out of the discworld books and call google a demi-god, in that it is not all powerful, but still close to ulfilling those five categories

Networship - we're all doing it! We gain enlightenment every time anyone send/receive email and every item purchased online is manna from heaven. The only difference I see is that you don't have to get on your knees once a week or clasp your hands in prayer to do it! It's Win Win Win.