Google
History
Can you
believe it was 1996 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on a search
engine they initially called "Back Rub"? It was originally a college
application working on servers at Standford University. They decided they
didn't like the name "Back Rub" and changed it to Google. Google is a
play on the word "googol". I know, I never heard of it either, but,
googol is a mathematical term. It is used for the number represented by the
numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros
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Andy
Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun, wrote a check to get Google started, in a
garage in Menlo Park. Does that sound familiar? Didn't Apple start in a garage
too? If you don't have a garage, maybe you should get one!
PC
Magazine named the new Google to its Top 100 Web Sites for 1998. They were on
their way and growing. As they say, the rest is history. To most of us, and I'm
sure to the younger generation, it is hard to imagine a world without Google!
A world without Google?
I don't know about you but I use Google for just
about everything. From research for writing articles to how to care for my
plants. I check facts that I'm not sure about and look for information on
different movie stars, actually, the list for me is almost endless. I Google a
lot. Judging from Google's popularity, I know I'm not alone.
Sure there was a time when there was no Google, but
there were Encyclopedias then. Remember them, encyclopedias? Volumes and
volumes of thick books with useful information all in one place. They did,
however, have their disadvantages because you had to wait for them to be
reprinted and distributed before you could get the latest updates depending on
their age, you could be reading not only out of date information but wrong
information. You were always a little behind the times.
Blank Monitor |
You could catch up on the news in the newspaper, but
sometimes they were printed the day before and you weren't getting the latest
report. Magazines, well most of them were monthly and a lot could happen in the
month between their publication.
Without Google Map |
When I thought about this, I had nightmares. A world
without Google means a world without Google Maps! Imagine all the stranded
travelers, who won't ask for directions, and have lost their way? Really, an
eighteenth of an inch on an Atlas map is certainly not the same as "drive
1.5 miles and turn right"!
Encyclopedias |
What about all those Google Images? The ease of
finding so many images all in one place. You can use Images to find content
related to images and its not just images, its photos, artwork and other images
from all over the Web. What a loss that would be! We can only hope someone else
would step up to the plate!
Google Chrome has all but knocked Internet Explorer
out of the ballpark. Easy to use, with everything in one place, Chrome has
become very popular too. Not to even mention Google+.
How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
What would happen if there was no Google?
So, what would happen if there was no Google? Well,
library card catalogs would find an increase in usage because people would have
to go the library again to get information! Research would take a lot longer
because you could no longer do it in your home. Depending on where you live, it
could take you anywhere from ten minutes to an hour to get to the nearest
library. Heaven forbid, people would have to actually make an effort to get
answers.
Okay, so there may still be other search engines. We
might have to go back to Yahoo or any other number of search engines, but you
wouldn't be able to "Google it"! Would you "Bing It"?
No Google |
Wait, what about all the people who work at Google?
What about all the companies that advertise on Google? It could be a financial
implosion for them and the economy would take another hit.
So many writers and advertisers design their web
pages so that the Google search bots will find them, rank them, and help get
traffic to them. Could another site do it as well as Google? Well, there are
times we want to strangle Google for its unrecognizable changes that affect
page rankings, but on a whole we depend on it. In spite of it all, Google does
drive traffic to sites it ranks well and that's every writer and web designers
goal, more traffic. Remember though Google is not your only traffic source and
its never a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.
Okay, if I haven't tweaked your interest yet, what about
YouTube? Google owns YouTube. Imagine a world without the ubiquitous YouTube!
No more laughing babies, nor more cute little animals, no more ridiculous
people doing ridiculous things before your very eyes, no more cultural or
theatrical videos, really. I don't know about you, but I'd miss YouTube, even
it was just for the laughs and music.
Respect |
Someone said, "there were smart people before
Google and there will be smart people after Google". I like that on many
levels. One being people like Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney didn't even have
computers, never mind the Internet or Google, and look what they did. Another,
because nothing is forever. Once every good home had a complete set of
encyclopedias, how many have them now? Once everyone who owned a desktop owned
an IBM desktop computer, how many own them now? One people walked around with
little transistor radios to listen to music on the go, have some of you ever
even heard of transistor radios? Once Yahoo was the search engine of choice,
need I say more?
We are in a constantly changing world and even
Google could change or go away. So the question "What would happen if
there was no Google" is relatively simple to answer, life would go on,
another search engine would take over and another company would become the
number one go to place on the Internet. What do you think?
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