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Googlezon is a fictional company created when Google merged with Amazon.com in the popular flash movie EPIC 2014, released in November 2004. As the story goes, Google, having consolidated all of its services into the Google Grid – a, "universal platform that provides a functionally limitless amount of storage space and bandwidth to store and share media of all kinds" – and Amazon.com, with its, "social recommendation engine" and, "huge commercial infrastructure" combine forces to battle with Microsoft and its fictional Newsbotster. This leads to the "News Wars of 2010", which are, "notable for the fact that no actual news organizations take part". Googlezon triumphs and unleashes EPIC (Evolving Personalized Information Construct), a universal, personalized news submission and distribution system that is so popular it effectively puts the fourth estate out of business.[1]
According to the film's creators, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson, Googlezon was the initial concept that led to the creation of EPIC 2014 in the spring of 2004.[2] Interestingly enough, Amazon.com launched its new A9.com search engine during the same year, although it is unclear if the film's creators were inspired by Amazon.com's new product.[3] Since 2006, A9 has been powered by Microsoft's Windows Live.com search.[4]
The term has since gained a life of its own, sometimes being used to generally refer to real or hypothetical convergences of Google-like and Amazon-like technology. The term Amazoogle is sometimes used to describe the same effect.[5][6]
[edit] See also
- A9.com
- Consumer privacy
- Google and privacy issues
- History of Google: Criticism and controversy
- Google Watch
[edit] References
- ^ LaMonica, Martin (December 27, 2004). "Googlezon: The future of media". CNET Networks. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5504609-7.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ Thompson, Matt (July 21, 2005). "EPIC 2014: The Future is Now". Poynter Online. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=85631. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ Markoff, John (September 15, 2004). "Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/technology/15search.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-31.
- ^ "Amazon.com moves to Microsoft's Windows Live for A9 search facility". Corporate IT Update. May 2, 2006. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DDT/is_2006_May_2/ai_n24986133. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ "Campus Events Listing for, "Libraries and University Presses in an Amazoogle Age": A Conversation with Wendy Pradt Lougee and Douglas Armato". University of Minnesota. April 6, 2006. http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=390812. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
- ^ "Vision of Public Services in Academic Libraries". Cornell University. http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/reports/visionofpublicservices.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-30.
