Been thinking. What is the eventual fate of Google? Using myself as an example, of course I use it for 99.5% of my Search queries. It pretty much acts as a rudimentary “braincap”. Anything I don’t know but need or want to know , I start with Google.com. I use Gmail though admittedly it is not my primary address as I prefer a @mac.com address. But, I do use Google Mail to serve as the mail server for my company email @jittr.com. Though I have Dreamhost as my hosting provider, I have “outsourced” the mail service to Google for free and benefit from it’s high availabllity and excellent spam filtering. I use Google as my Content Distribution Network for static Javascript library files. In certain instances have used Google Docs and am actively considering it for future spreadsheet and word documents like activities as I am not inclined to continue to pay Microsoft the licensing fees for their services. I use Google Analytics for Web reporting and though it is related to Search, I use Google as a reference point for vanity (about me) communications.
At what point does the dependency on Google become so great it becomes a must have for the economy or for the national well-being?
Now , it were it were to become a government agency it would have to change it’s ranking algorithms to return results based on some Federal guideline for political correctness determined by whichever party held the reins of power at the moment. Creationism or Evolution, Pro-Choice or Anti Abortion, Public Health option or not, and on and on.
I don’t believe this is so far-fetched in the end.
[tags]Julio Hernandez-Miyares, jittr.com, google.com[/tags]
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