Where
would our society be, in 2016, without the Internet Search Engine?
Whether
you use Google or Bing, you likely utilize a search engine at least once a day
to search out answers you seek.
Cult-TV
history is replete with references to search engines, mostly fictional ones.
Not
always fictional, however.
As
early as 1997, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) mentioned the word “Google” as a verb
(as in to google-one’s self) in a first season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(1997-2003).
Since
that time, search engines appear all the time on genre programs as characters
attempt to research topics of all varieties.
The
most famous fictional (TV) Internet search engine is Finder-Spyder, which has
been utilized in Journeyman (2006), Breaking Bad (2008 – 2013) and
limited series The X-Files revival (2016), to name just a few.
Private
investigator Veronica Mars (2004 – 2006) seems partial to the search engine
known a “Planet Zowie.”
Dexter (2006-2013), meanwhile, uses a
search engine called “Netwrangle.”
The
TV show Sherlock (2010 - ) prefers the search engine called “Quest
Search.”
The
characters on Community (2009 – 2015) use “Searchsies,” while the Winchesters
of Supernatural
(2005 - ) prefer the generic-sounding “Search the Web.”
Pick your (Internet) poison.
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