Google: Friend or Foe?

The New York Times today poses the question, β€œIs Google a friend or foe?”

Clearly, by the only measurement that matters (Google Trends), Google is a friend, not a foe. To test this theory, I ran Google Trends on several related searches:

Google Friend (blue), Google Foe (red)

Google Good (blue), Google Evil (red)

Google Angel (blue), Google Devil (red)

Please do not take this post seriously – it is meant to be a bit silly.

1 Response to “Google: Friend or Foe?”


  1. 1 red1

    It looks like the red lines are not going to go away. Show me the graph again next year.

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