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September 15, 2009 4:04 PM PDT

Google's crop circle doodle suggests finality

by Chris Matyszczyk
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It has been said, not least by senior people at Google, that the company dreams of the day when we have Google search implanted in our brains.

Some, mainly human beings, chuckled at the prospect. Perhaps they should stop chuckling.

It must be very difficult to stay interested when you're running the world's largest small ad company, so the appearance of a couple of alien-related doodles suggest that Google's management has finally spaced out.

The latest doodle, which appeared Tuesday, reveals a similar spacecraft to the one that supposedly commemorated the Japanese video game Zero Wing. However, this one seems to be flying over crop circles.

(Credit: Google.com)

To accompany this mystery--or perhaps the selling of the majority shareholders to the rulers of another planet--Google offered these coordinates on its Twitter page: 51.327629, -0.5616088.

The worldly wise have suggested that these coordinates point to a town called Horsell in Surrey, England.

This is the location where the first aliens floated to earth in H.G. Wells' 19th century masterwork--and, for all I know, the Jeff Wayne concept album of the 1970s--called "The War of the Worlds."

It would have been Wells' 143rd birthday September 21.

However, I think they are fooling everyone. After all, crop circles are clearly the creations of alien beings who are merely toying with our farms, the very elemental organizations that prop up our ailing, stomach-stuffing society. And National Geographic is reporting that many new crop circles have appeared overnight.

Aliens are saying to us: "We can take you any time you like."

And, in an attempt to show just how far they can take their dominance, there is every reason to suspect that otherearthly beings have already implanted their own thought-processes into the brains of Google's leaders. Hence, the declarations about brain-implanted search.

We will soon discover that 'google' is, indeed, the Planet Bunga's word for "We own you, dummies."

And we will all be subject to the Bungans rather esoteric way of thought and deed.

I know some, especially those who hug singularity to their bosoms, cannot wait for the day.

Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.
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by mrcjacobs September 15, 2009 4:22 PM PDT
Really? Are you serious? You've gotta be pulling our legs! It's a freakin' doodle. Much like the thousands of others they've posted. It's safe to say that "technically Incorrect" has officially become useless.
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by rodsbot September 16, 2009 2:07 AM PDT
Hi. I just made a Crop Circle collection from Google Earth. You could see it there : http://www.rodsbot.com/google-earth-crop_circle-0.htm
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/09/15/2009-09-15_crop_circles_mysteriously_appear_on_google_homepage_.html?comments=1#ixzz0RG6bCPLC
by MyRightEye September 15, 2009 4:37 PM PDT
How do I get these 2 minutes of my life back?
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by SactoGuy018 September 16, 2009 2:28 PM PDT
It's either that or a lot of fodder for the next episode of the "This WEEK in Google" podcast. I'm not looking forward to the "Coast to Coast AM" crowd commenting on this, though. :-/
by karpenterskids September 15, 2009 4:41 PM PDT
Ahhh...slow news day today, is it?
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by Pishkado September 15, 2009 5:22 PM PDT
All your bases are belong to us.
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by E3332SSS September 15, 2009 5:26 PM PDT
The answers are at
www.GoogleCropCircles.com
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by E3332SSS September 15, 2009 5:29 PM PDT
The answers are at
www.GoogleCropCircles.info

Not .com
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by poole12th September 15, 2009 6:41 PM PDT
Its because halloween is coming up and they are mazes if u look close at most of them iv been to a few in past years its a good way to bring in a little money for the farmers that are not making very much money this season.
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by jonny-mt September 15, 2009 8:57 PM PDT
Look, you're a good writer and a refreshing voice on this site, but this kind of stuff is just beneath you. Google doodles don't require explanatory articles; all they ask for is a "Hey, that's neat!" reaction before you put in your search criteria. Please stop writing about them.
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by solitare_pax September 16, 2009 2:40 AM PDT
At least it isn't an article about how the cumulus cloud formation outside his window looks like the PC guy taking a hatchet to the Mac guy...

Now that would be weird.
by Greg-Lee September 15, 2009 10:06 PM PDT
I agree with jonny. I think he as just trying to be a little too "spunky" with his article. You're a good writer, but i just think the subjest wasn't interesting enough to research into it at that extent. This article is pretty much like "what's that new google picture" stretched into 2 minutes. Sure people want to know what the space ship picture is all about, but anyone can find out that information, in point form, on a lot of sites. Thanks for answering a few of my questions, but i don't think this was worth it.
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by clayzer-ev September 16, 2009 3:55 AM PDT
Chris, You are a smartass. We Bungans consider this an asset. You will be excused from the coming unpleasantness.
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by donsms September 16, 2009 5:32 AM PDT
How many bong fulls did this guy smoke last night?
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by johngos September 16, 2009 8:16 AM PDT
You're all wrong. :-) Google is clearly and very sensibly promoting my new book, Waging the War of the Worlds which was published last week. The timing is spooky :-). www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk
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by Dalkorian September 16, 2009 10:25 AM PDT
I for one welcome our evil Bungan overloards.
:D
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by mad102190 September 21, 2009 12:29 AM PDT
you're all wrong. check out this link for more info on what happened at this location on september 15, 1985.


http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case947.htm
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