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A new week of cutting-edge projects themed around evil mother Google !!! Backup your data now !!!
In preparation for our upcoming epic F.A.T. Lab meet up at Transmediale10 Berlin we are pleased to announce our next topic week FUCK GOOGLE ! Stay tuned for a series of brand new pieces to be released here in the upcoming week!
F.A.T. lab is nomintaed for the Transmediale Award 2010
Transmediale 2010 “Futurity now!”
February 2nd – 7th, 2010
Berlin, Germany
Come and join F.A.T. at Transmediale! Book your tickets now!
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Google is the most popular site on the world wide web. Since Larry Page and Sergey Brin opened the Menlo Park doors of their corporate office in 1998, Google has grown to be much more than just the defacto information search utility for the web. Beyond having over 150 domains, dozens of web, browser and desktop apps, a number of the most popular sites on the web (like YouTube), partnerships with multimedia conglomerates and multinational telecoms, one spy satellite and a mysterious network of telecommunication infrastructure, Google has become a new word in the international lexicon. I Googled it. 구글했다. Je l’ai googlelé. Jeg googlede det. ã‚°ã‚°ã£ãŸã€‚ Eu Googled isso. Ich hab’s gegoogled. मॅठgoogled है. Yo googleo.
Google, Ergo Sum.
But, it wasn’t always easy streets for the kindly, corporate giant. Shining a light into the darkness of the early web was not as simple as it looked. It took patience, a “don’t be evil” mantra, football fields of high-end office furniture, and millions and millions of ads. As F.A.T. Lab fellows Randy Sarafan and Geraldine Juárez, wrote in their tell-all, Google, biopic entitled, Lost and Found:
“Webrings just wouldn’t work… Information needed to be freed and shopping needed to be accessible. There could only ever be one pets.com. Exoticpets.com, rarepets.com, rareexoticpets.com, and rareexoticpetfood.com would all be outposts in the wilderness without a road to lead you there. Google’s benevolent hands built that road. And they built millions of other roads. And then they lined these roads with billboards. And with the money they made on these billboards, they built entire cities of industry. And within these cities, they erected more billboards. And pretty soon, Google, the mere builder of roads, owned half of the frontier, which was no longer a frontier, but a megalopolis without borders.”
So, what is so “fuck-worthy” about Mother-google? It is the fact that a corporate entity, even one as beloved and competent as Google, is in control of such a large stake in the digital network and public utility upon which we have all grown so reliant. And, that as a publicly traded company, it doesn’t have to answer to anyone but its largest shareholders, despite the fact that its decisions effect the lives and private information of millions of people. Few even question or raise a voice in opposition to the Google-ification of the Internet.
Don’t get us wrong, we use Google too. We use search, blog search, gmail, YouTube, calendar, docs, analytics, maps, etc. We use them like we do the sidewalk or a public toilets when we have to take a piss: because it feels like there just isn’t any other option. Sure, there are alternatives to Google. But, they mostly suck. And to not use Google means to lose access to an enormous network and some of the most reliable tools on the Internet.
That is why for Transmediale 2010, F.A.T. Lab proposes ‘FuckGoogle’, a collection of browser add-ons, open source software, theoretical musings and direct actions aimed at creating an awareness of the role Google plays in our daily lives. Throughout the duration of Transmediale, F.A.T. members and friends will publish free software, live streams, communiques and video documentation of actions on the fffff.at blog. So, join us and let’s all FuckGoogle together. By the way, does anyone have Sergey’s email or home address?
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@aram — downsized the permalink’s dashes… search engine pwnage will be ours
Can be make this a permanent project and not just a week?
Sure it’ll be an extented week and of course it’S a life time project anyway …
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Sergey Brin, known by his gay friends as Sir Gay Brin, is a vicious, predatory Jew whose equally vicious, predatory parents were Russian-born Kikes. Sir Gay Brin is an ugly, hawk-nosed, evil Jew who, along with the Jewish media, has convinced the world that Google is literally God! Sorry, Sir Gay Brin, the “reign” of Google is coming to an end and you should head back to Russia permanently. Your arrogance and greed will be your undoing. Join the ranks of Madoff in jail. That is where you will spend the rest of your pathetic life. Sir Gay Brin, did you know that www in Hebrew is 666, the mark of the devil? As a Hebe, I’m sure that you are the source of all Google filth and criminality.
@prise Evan Roth is a jew too.
I want a Shirt with `Fuck Google’!
I FUCKING HATE GOOGLE. EVERY TIME I TRY TO MAKE A DUMBASS GMAIL ACCOUNT, I EITHER ENTER IN THE WRONG NUMBER FOR THE VERIFICATION CODE, OR I NEED A FUCKING CELLPHONE – WHICH I DON’T FUCKING HAVE. FUCK GOOGLE. IT FUCKING SUCKS.
@Molly Yepp thats exactly why I am here. Im not giving them my phone number for them to eventually exploit. Google is the new AOL. Out to trash your computers, and now, cell phones.
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Google does make alot of people money? Is there any need? Im not arguing, just curious to find out why there is so much hate? Google does make too much money, and makes daft algorithms – but still – its an fun company, no?
just found this on google search LMAO
I’d like to get this T-shirt, too. And I wouldn’t mind Sergey Brin back in here so he can enjoy some excellent winter weather. Google is a rotten beast!
an interesting proposal. I would point out however that Google unlike others that have been in their position is fairly open about the nature of their position. That is to say they aren’t pretending that they don’t control insane amounts of information at a level that is becoming increasing more vital to our digital lives.
If you’re going to ‘bring Google into the light’ as it were you need to be sure to bring up some good points. I don’t know if google is still doing their 50 year cookie, but that’d be a good place to start I guess.
Google allows the browser to be taken over by church~us~freeks. I got to find a new homepage
I hate Google i want to hacked or disabled all the setup of Google who helped me in this….
Thanks !
Google Fucker
Here is the text of the complaint I have sent to Google not once, but several times. They have not only failed to correct the situation, I haven’t had the courtesy of even an automated reply.
“My account was suspended with no warning or explanation despite repeated requests.
I received the code but there is no place to enter it nor any instructions on how to do so. The arrogance and indifference of Google tells me that yes, you ARE evil.”
Yes, Google is arrogant and it seems they have told their users, “We don’t care, we’re Google, we don’t have to care.”
I will never use anything Google ever again, no search engine, no applications, no cloud resources, nothing. I will also devote resources every day to dissuading as many others as possible to do the same. OK, they got me this time, including my PayPal account. But I will get them thousands of times over. What I have lost will be multiplied many, many times over. I hope they go bankrupt.
hahaha, this is going nowhere. if you have a point to prove, try something a little more mature than “fuck google”. idiots.
those who say that i hate google!
then get out of their database. don’t use google, youtube, chrome, blogger…
and can you make one like this???
you people are just talking..
Well, Cyber Khan, you obviously didn’t read m post. I said that “I will never use anything Google ever again, no search engine, no applications, no cloud resources, nothing.” That is exactly what I am doing. There are other search engines and they are not as heavily commercialized as Google so often give better and more accurate results. I have a new email provider, GMX.com that is every bit as good as Google. No, it doesn’t have the huge storage that I have accumulated in the years of using Google that I did, but what individual ever would need that? I keep my email up to date and very clean and never even used 1% of gmail.
So I say Google is evil, and a bunch of arrogant assholes. So I will never use anything Google ever again. Check back in a month, a year, or a decade. I’ll still be saying Google is the worst.
haha… James! do what you want…
google provide me what i want and when it goes down then i’ll find an other such thing for myself
Obviously, I have done exactly that. But maybe my first post was too difficult to understand?
Not only will Google suspend your account with no warning, they will not respond to any attempts to get an explanation.
But no worries, mate. gmx.com is working well for me and other search engines are actually proving more useful than Google. Perhaps, like Microsoft, they have become too fat and complacent to have any regard for customers?
Google is an asshole fucker it has to be shut down.Fuck you google
i use to like google and thought it was the best but now i know google’s information is faulty it told me the weather was 75 at the beach so we take take the0 hour drive there and it was 62 degrees and cloudy then last week i got directions from las vegas and it sent me to disney land in L.a. i was so pissed it added 4 hours to my drive time so know when i hear the name google i say fuck googlethere info is worthless
Google are a bunch of criminals, charging you fortunes for the add words service. Once they have the money, you can forget to ever get it back. After all, no human being to talk to. Google is a good reflection of big corporatism fascism practices: employees and customers being treated like numbers. Google now a days is tight in with the CIA and thus Censoring certain content that makes them feel “uncomfortable”. A good example was “The Obama deception”, a production from Alex Jones, ranked very well on Google search engine for keyword “Obamaâ€. Actually it ranked a bit too well. Reason for Google to gradually slow down the traffic by simply taking the video down for a couple of hours a day. Google spider took care of the rest. . We are on the verge of the end of free internet, since big money, and big mobs are taking over.
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the fuck google reflection missing from the second picture :p
yes yes fuck google
google sucks, period.
fuck google period.
hi every body
can i ask you ?
how do u found this page?,not with google ?!
@hi every body
can i ask you ?
how do u found this page?,not with google ?!
NOPE. With my own crawler you fucktard.