Google- Kacie

Google is not as essential in my life as it seems to be for Firger. I use Google as my first choice for a search engine. I recently have utilized it for GoogleDocs and GoogleScholar for academic purposes. I now have a gmail account set up as a result of this course. At this point, I don’t use this address as much because of my UNI e-mail. I may use this more after I graduate, but the use of the other tools may decrease at this point as well.

I have not really thought about Google’s advertising strategy or what they own. In my world, they seem pretty distant yet available. Very rarely do I watch television so I haven’t seen any commercials if they even have any. I guess I don’t really know what they own either. After a very small amount of searching (on Google), I found a website that lists what Google owns. This can be found at http://searchwarp.com/swa300671.htm. I know very few of these sites other than YouTube. Google is “aptocratic” because of its ability to find sources for the answers to our questions. Based on our keywords, Google supplies different sites. For the most part, these sites are ranked from “best fit” to “worst fit”. This technology can only be produced by those people who are able to encode this into the programming system.

I think Yahoo! is still pretty common for a lot of people. I think this is mostly for people who began with Yahoo! and don’t have to switch their provider every time something new and shiny comes out. I had/have Yahoo! accounts since grade school. I don’t really care to switch to the new thing if what I currently have works fine for me.