Google owns your Internet

Whether you like it or not, “Google” is almost synonymous with “Internet”. Year after year, Google has developed enough online applications for you to be able to do anything you need to, by only using Google.

Now you have a search engine, an online email service, an IM service, a blogging platform, photo and video sharing applications, a feed reader, an online word processor, an encyclopedia, a web site creator, an online directory and even an Internet browser!

Not to mention His PPC advertising system, its main source of revenue.

Now look at the list above. It´s pretty long, isn´t it? Well you know what? It´s only 10% of the programs, applications, widgets or services Google provides today.

Internet without Google?

Now the question is: would it be the Internet possible without Google?

Well, the natural response is yes, it would. But it would be an Internet without its best search engine,without Gmail, YouTube, Google Video, Google Reader, Picassa, Blogger, Orkut, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google Chrome, Google Analytics, Google News, Google, Google, Google!

What a mess! It seems almost impossible to work without Google!

But it isn´t. That´s because - fortunately - for almost every service Google provides, there is an alternate service waiting to be discovered. So basically it all depends on your will to make a change. Are you ready to give up all these services and start One day without Google?

Whatever you do, Google is your Big Brother.

Anything you do on the Internet or in “real life”, Google knows about. Maybe this sounds a bit exaggerated, but think about it:

Google knows what you are looking for. Where you are from. What you are interested in. What you´re blogging about. What you are reading. What you advertise. What you click on. What your hobbies are.

Are you ready to give them up and start One day without Google?

Be careful what you wish, Google knows it.

Now that kind of information gives Google a tremendous power. Still haven´t figured it out why? Google can develop the exact application or service to fulfill your most ardent needs He knows about. So basically while Google works on creating new needs, He also develops new ways to address them. That´s kind of easy peasy lemon squeezy. For Him. And for you too, apparently. Unless, you start One day without Google

No study or explore anymore; there´s Google now.

Here, the issue is more complex than it seems at the first sight. With today´s computers and Internet, the access to information is freer than ever. And Google showed up to organize all that information and serve it on demand. That makes it an excellent way to quickly find information, learn about things you wouldn´t otherwise know about and find an answer to virtually any question.

So there is a big risk that we, or at least our children, will forget how to handwrite (word processors rulz!), will forget the multiplication table (google it!), will forget anything related to literature (lol, leave me alone M8!), history (there´s wiki), natural sciences and so on.

The problem is, sooner or later we won´t be able to discern what is true and what is false, since all our information sources have moved to online, the truth will lay on the first page of the SERPS (search engine results pages). And just like that…

...Your senses, typical for all live organisms, will all be annihilated.

All that, only if you let it happen.

But you can make a change. Have a different view.

Make a point and stand up for it.

You can start One day without Google.