The Metamorphosis

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When I woke up this morning I felt quite strange. The bed was the same bed I had been sleeping on for the last five years, but for some unknown reason I was not able to get out. I looked around. It was my room. I tried to move my head and it moved. ‘Great’, I thought, ‘At least something is working.’ Before my eyes I saw a tunnel. I peeked inside and took a look around. Suddenly, out of nowhere, came billions of URLs moving all around me. My head was automatically drawn to one in particular. It was a blog. But I couldn’t understand what was written there. Only keywords that looked familiar. “Turing”. “Computers”. “Machine”. “Test”. There were also some links. “Wikipedia” – a good one. “Berkley University” – not too bad either. I wrote myself a note with the keywords, links and URL. The URL seemed familiar to me. I searched again and then I figured it out. I had already seen this link. On other site. The “Turing Fan Club”. Not a big site. I wrote myself one more note about this site. I tried to read the text but I couldn’t quite make out what it was all about. Fuck. What is wrong with me? Why couldn’t I understand the text? Why am I only able to find keywords, links and referring sites? Could it have been something I ate?

But then suddenly I realized. Suddenly it all became clear. I had become one of Google’s crawlers.

K.