Saturday, September 25, 2010
Google it
Google is a phenomenal landing page, when you are in need of some information you no longer search for it, you “Google” it. Google.com is simple, uncluttered, precise and lacks all the advertising pop ups. Google advertises tactfully and does it without invasive advertising. Google has become a trusted site that is a very powerful search engine that brings you the most real and relevant information. Google has a bunch of business tools for companies to interface with Google. For example; St Scholastica you now access your email through a Google server. While other companies are looking into having Google the search engine of their company intranet.
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You raise an interesting point that "googling' has become synonimous with "searching." That simple fact has helped Google stay ahead of the pack in the competition to become the most used search engine.
ReplyDeleteFrom my experience, I would say Google has become an everyday part of life. From web searches to email access it simply has become part of my life and I think it is mainly because they simply are a great company. They have an excellent search engine that is clean, uncluttered, and pop-up free and they have partnered that with free email accounts. I have a feeling Google is with us to stay and will continue to be a name associated with web searches.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, we will all work for Google!
ReplyDeleteJim's got a point. To paraphrase the once-popular Internet meme, "All our base belong to Google..."
ReplyDeleteTwo things come to mind.
First, a bit of Web pre-history. Does anyone remember the original Yahoo! site? It was extremely simple -- just links on a gray or white background. (See it via the "Wayback Machine here, circa 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19970109130853/http://www9.yahoo.com/ ). Visit Yahoo! today. Wow!! It's better than it was recently; but there's still a lot going on.
Second, Bing. Microsoft is obviously trying to compete with Google head-on in the search arena. But nothing can match -- at least yet -- Google's simple focus. As an experiment, I set Bing as my default search engine for one week in my browser. Gave up after four days.
But Google's biggest strength, despite all they do in the public eye, is the stuff going on behind the scenes. Huge -- absolutely huge.