Google - Jessica

I am not quite as invested in the Google “mania” as Dan is, but I do rely on Google quite a bit. It is the main search engine that I use for anything, from websites, to images, to translating a foreign language, to email, and very soon I will be using Google.dox for a class. I like it because it’s simple and gives me what I want. I don’t think I will ever become so invested in the company that a reflection of me is actually all in Google. I probably already have too much information out there on the web through different accounts and sign ups that ask for personal information. I think it’s a dangerous place to be when all of my privacy and information is in one place that is possible taking over the internet world.

I like that Google is very simple. It doesn’t have a lot of the advertising on its pages and when it does they are not dominating over the information I am trying to retrieve. They advertise themselves in attractive ways that aren’t too needy or pushy; they simply advertise what they’ve got. Google owns a lot out in the technology world. As the article stated before, Google just bought Youtube, one of the most popular websites today. The company is getting bigger by its aptocracy people who are using their knowledge in unique ways to really better a product. For example the mathematical equation so that the most precise link shows up to what the consumer wants. It is that it’s changing along with the world as well as changing the world by these people. I feel that Google is for the most part actually listening to what consumers want and using their company for that reason. That is how it’s getting bigger, they are listening to their consumers, changing it for their wants, and in return people will continue to use it. Both parties are getting high rewards in this production.

Yahoo is trying to catch up with Google, but I don’t know if they’ll ever get there. They sound as if their goal is to keep people tied in through Hollywood gossip. They want to be as accessible as Google is now on the different hand held devices. I think one big thing that contributes to Yahoo’s losing popularity is now that they are trying to catch up, nothing is as exciting and something that consumers must have now. Consumers will want newer, better, and faster apps, not ones that we can already get through Google.