Movies so often use fictionalized versions of everyday
products, especially Google. I have seen many movies where there’s a fake web
browser that’s obviously supposed to be Google, but for some reason they don’t
want to actually show someone using Google.
Recently I saw the most ridiculous example of this fake
movie Google web browser I’ve yet seen, in a movie called: The New Daughter; it was called: “Root Around”, and it had a little
cartoon logo of a squirrel holding an acorn, with the subtitle: “…your place to
forage the web!” Hilarious!
But if they’re going to make a fake Google web browser for a
horror movie that actually contains spiders in the plot, then how about using a
cartoon of a spider riding on a surfboard as the logo for a browser called: “Web
Surfer”? That would have been a silly in-joke for the movie.
I wonder if any movie has used the “Web Surfer” title and
the spider on a surfboard before as a stand-in for Google? It seems so obvious
to me as a joke web browser name, I would be shocked if it hadn’t ever been
used before. (But I have never seen it used in a movie.)
