Google- Andrew

I am one hundred percent like Dan Firger in that I use google for about one hundred percent of my research. When I am doing research for my communication courses or just any class for school I use google scholar. It is amazing all the academic articles you can find with just searching one word, for example I was searching for academic articles on proxemics the other day and found thousands of articles! Google is such a life saver too when you need to find a quick fact about something as well, a new term I think that our generation has used a lot is when we dint know something " GOOGLE IT!" I also use GMail now, it is amazing all the space it holds for emails, google docs to send people, and you can even video chat now! They just are making everything so easy and convenient. Google Image search is a very hip thing, when you need some quick pictures of anything you can find thousands of images of everything I love it! Google maps is a much better source then mapquest, it has much more accurate directions and does not give you unnecssary side routes. The best thing about google is google earth, enough said!

I remember watching a segment on the today show about the best places to work and the number one place in America to work was for GOOGLE! They have tons of employees! They are smart with advertising and dont let people know they are using advertised too. They could be like facebook and have tons of ads on the side of there page but they do not! They probably get a share from companies wanting there site to be the first one that comes up when someone searches it on google. Google is Aptocratic cause they do hire the best people, they hire the best of the best.

I used to use Yahoo a ton before google started making its name. It is a solid place to search now but doesnt get as many hits as google. I feel like they were not able to keep up with google. They can not figure out there own simple way to provide searches, they have way to crowded of pages at the front of there page and its hard to figure out sometime what you are looking for where with google you just have to type it in then all the searches come up. I feel yahoo is combining ideas from many other search engine sites to make the ultimate site but its just way to messy on front and needs to trim down a bit in my opinion.