mccMay 20

This is actually happening now

https://theonion.com/google-announces-plan-to-destroy-all-information-it-can-1819567986/

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.

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@mcc The only part they got wrong is that this is a Microsoft project now:

"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."

May 20 at 6:21pmWeb
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@foolishowl well, we'll see what the "GoogleBook" is like
Show threadsolastalgia kris ☀️🧘🚲May 20

@foolishowl @mcc

Unfortunately that was a real thing at some point. History doesn't repeat, but it sure rhymes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

Google Desktop - Wikipedia