Google has become a part of American and World culture. It has brought an easy and quick way to navigate the information-packed world wide web. Google has become a part of my daily life to keep up with the demands of college. I always begin research papers by Googling the topic.
Google started simply as a search engine to help people locate websites. It has transformed into so much more as it has grown over the years. I think the only way to truly understand the amount of services that Google has to offer is going to the source itself. I looked at tools that Google lists on having and this is what I have found. Google has: a Book Search,Cached Links,Calculator,Currency Conversion,Definitions, Images,Local Search,Movies,Music Search,News Headlines, PhoneBook, Refine Your Search,Results Prefetching,Search By Number,Similar Pages,Site Search,Spell Checker,Street Maps, Travel Information,Weather,Web Page Translation and are many more (Google.com). People should check out this page to understand the features in order to completely benefit from these features. The staggering amount of services that Google has on their webpage shows that Google has morphed and is trying to compete with rival websites. I did not know about half of these features and I thought I was an informed Google user.
Google has begun to expand its influences on today’s society and one of the major items to help expand their reign over the new technology is called Android. This object will be one of Google’s first non-web based items and it will dive into the world of wireless communication. The Android will a provide “a free set of tools” (Wu 1) that will allow for a programmer to easily write in any application into the cell phone (Wu 2). This opens the mobile phone industry to windows that have never been even looked through before. The ability for a person to add their own personal applications to a phone, so it will be tailored it their wants and cater to their every need, and this is all in one phone. The idea of a “little black box” comes to my mind when thinking of a easily programmable cell phone (Jenkins 15). It is the closest thing that I have ever heard of that is the little black box with everything one would want.
Google which has become a part of American culture and has slowly edged itself into everyday language. The word Google has come to mean more than just the website but the term is being used for all search engines. I use the term to Google at least five times a day. The verb “to Google” has been added to Oxford English Dictionary and the Mermaid-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary” (Gozzi,444). It has become a part of people’s daily lives and appears in ever medium. In the novel, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, the protagonist, Cayce Pollard, speaks of Googling many different things for example she states, “Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find a ‘coolhunter’…”( 2). This shows how Google has become an expected part of today’s culture and Google has become a part of everyone’s general knowledge about search engines.
Another downside to this search engine is Google, which is an American based company, has now gave into communist demands. The website is censoring the results that Chinese clients receive while using Google (Gozzi,445). This is a tragic occurrence in the digital world. Most forms of media are being censored for the greater good, for the protection of innocent children but censoring the entire nation of China? This seems to be corporation with ideas that I do not stand by. I was outraged by this idea and I found that many other people felt the same way. When I found a picture illustrating the severe differences between search results of Tiananmen in China and America. They are not receiving the truth and coming from America I feel a sort of idealism that every person should be treated equal, no matter their nationality.
When accessing the wonderful wide world web for the search engine Google one needs to be an educated user with the newest features but also knowing the dangerous technology that lies within. All users out there just be aware of what Google has to offer and see the good and bad in everything that you do. Stop being blind to some of the aspects that Google has in store for us.
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