10 More Insane Rules Movies Weren't Allowed To Break
7. Peter Parker Can't Use Google - The Amazing Spider-Man
When The Amazing Spider-Man was released back in 2012, many fans poked fun at the fact that Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) used Microsoft's unpopular search engine Bing rather than Google like, y'know, just about everyone else in the Western world.
This was of course because Microsoft paid the production to feature Bing, resulting in several scenes where the web-slinger is shown researching information using it.
To many, it just didn't track that a person as smart as Peter would be using an objectively inferior search engine when Google is right there.
But of course, Peter was contractually prohibited from using Google because it would cause a conflict of interest with the Bing product placement and open the production up to a legal challenge from Microsoft.
However, Sony evidently took the mockery to heart, as by the time The Amazing Spider-Man 2 rolled around two years later and Bing had failed to make much of a dent globally, Peter jumped ship to Google.