Finder Spyder

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Finder-Spyder is the name of a fictional search engine company . Fictional companies are popular in the film industry, especially in the English-speaking world. Other examples are ACME , Oceanic Airlines or Morley Cigarettes . Finder-Spyder is one of the ten best-known fictional brands .

Often the producers have to switch to non-existent companies for trademark protection reasons . The counterpart to this is product placement . By using the company name in the film, an advertising effect or other benefit is achieved for an existing company. Finder-Spyder appears in many different films and series. The online presence is not uniform. Finder-Spyder's external presentation is partly reminiscent of Google .

Use in films and series

  • The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases : Season 10 "The Fight": Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) uses Finder Spyder to find Tad O'Malley's home page.
  • Bones : Season 10 "Luck in the game, bad luck in the corpse": Finder-Spyder is referred to as the best search engine on the web.
  • Breaking Bad : "Cat's in the Bag ..."
  • Criminal Minds : Season 4 "I Am Many" and "The Business of Lust", Season 5 "The Pack", "From Cradle to Grave" and "The Reaper"
  • Crossing Jordan : "Hubris"
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation : Season 6 “Time of Your Death”, Season 7 “Meet Market”: At the beginning of the episode, Michael Keppler ( Liev Schreiber )usesFinder Spyder to look for information about a crime.
  • Dexter
  • Heroes : Season 4 "Obsessed"
  • Homeland : Season 1 "The Garage"
  • Hung : Season 1 "What is your successful device?"
  • Journeyman : Season 1 "A Love of a Lifetime": Reporter Dan Vasser ( Kevin McKidd ) uses Finder-Spyder on his iPhone to search for Neal Gaines ( Warren Christopher ). Finder-Spyder also appears in the episodes "Friendly Skies", "The Year of the Rabbit" and "The Legend of Dylan McCleen".
  • Moonlight
  • Prison Break : Season 1 “The Big Plan” and “Puzzle Pieces”, Season 2 “Limitation Periods”, Season 3 “Dirt Buries Morality” and Season 4 “Critical Questions”.
  • Touch: Season 1, episode 3 "Protection in the crowd" and in season 2, episode 5 "eye to eye"
  • Weeds : Season 5 "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
  • Without a Trace : Season 6 "Contaminated Sites" and Season 7 "The Weather Man"

Trivia

Although Finder-Spyder does not exist, the company's promotional items can still be purchased online .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top 10 Fictional Brands from Movies and TV . WatchMojo.com. August 12, 2013. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Stacy Conradt: The Quick 10:10 Fake Brands Used by the Entertainment Industry . Mental floss. March 3, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Jay Garmon "Geek Trivia: Search party of the second part" of March 16, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2016.