Spoiler alert: ComicBook.com reported this weekend everyone’s favorite spider-bitten superhero has switched from searching on Bing to being a full-fledged Google user.
According to the report, Spider-man alias Peter Parker used Bing in the 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man film, much to the disbelief of many hardcore comic book fans:
In a world where somebody bitten by a radioactive spider in an experimental laboratory with very little oversight gains super powers and dons spandex to save New York City from a rampaging lizard man, many fans felt that the most unrealistic element of�The Amazing Spider-Man when it debuted theatrically in 2012 was the fact that Peter Parker used Bing, Microsoft�s unpopular search engine, rather than Google in the film.With the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 last Friday, movie goers learned the lead character Peter Parker, played by Andrew Garfield both searched on Google during the film, and was shown using a Gmail account. (Side note: Garfield’s breakout role happened in 2010 when he played Facebook’s lesser-known founder Eduardo Saverin in Oscar-winning film The Social Network.)
Not only did the film’s lead use Google, ComicBook.com said the The Amazing Spider-Man 2 cast and director hosted a Google+ hang-out to take questions from fans prior to the film’s release.
Whether or not it was a paid product placement on Google’s part is unknown, but ComicBook.com speculates there’s a chance money probably did exchange hands somewhere along the way.
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