Google and Facebook portrayed as real people now a comedy staple

By | July 18, 2014

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To drive home the point that Facebook and Google know an alarming amount about you, online comedians like to show what life would be like if those Web services were real people. Anthropomorphizing websites has become a comedy staple in reason years. CollegeHumor lately has been running a funny series called “If Google Was a Real Guy.” The series stars actor Brian Huskey as search engine Google (GOOGL). The first video premiered in January and demonstrated how awkward it would be if people asked their weird search queries to a real person. In part two, which dropped in March, the National Security Agency appears to check out some suspicious-sounding Google queries. CollegeHumor premiered part three in the series last week. In it, Google grows increasingly exasperated with dumb questions, porn requests and senior citizens who don’t know how to use the Internet. Facebook (FB) has gotten the real-person treatment as… Scalper1 News

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