'The Google'

Google Launches 'The Google' For Older Adults

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—The popular search engine Google announced plans Friday to launch a new site, TheGoogle.com, to appeal to older adults not able to navigate the original website's single text field and two clearly marked buttons.  "The Google will have all the same information currently found on regular Google, but with the added features of not stealing your credit-card numbers or giving your computer all kinds of viruses," said Rick Tillich, The Google project director. "All you have to do to turn the website on is put the little blinking line thing in the cyberspace window at the top of the screen, type 'thegoogle.com,' and press 'return'—although it will also recognize http.wwwthegoogle.com, google.aol, and 'THEGOOGLE' typed into a Word document."  Tillich added that he hopes the site will soon replace Yahoo Internet Website.com as the most popular search engine for users over 55.

This is an example of satire because it is satirizing that older people are not capable of using the Internet.  They need bigger fonts since their eyesight is so poor and the article is making fun of idea that elderly people do not know how to use technology since when they were kids there was a milkman delivering their milk and they were riding their bikes to work. It is also stating that the older you get the slower you become so they made this website so easy to navigate that even a 1 year old child could use it.  This fits into the catergory if satire because it is probing that since technology is so new everyone who was born 40 years ago cannot use it.