Google

We use the Internet in many ways, one being finding various information by searching words through various search engines. Weather we know if these are credible search engines is beyond our understanding. We often take the first piece of information given to us because we think it is credible and want to find the easy way out. One search engine, which was talked about in class, was Google. Being the number one used website in the world it is clear that many people use it. Google has both positive and negative aspects to it. I think in many ways Carr is saying this when he is describing Google because he explains how Google makes its profits and the way in which Google works. He says on page 160 “Google’s range of complements has extended into ever more industries” obviously describing how successful Google is. I think Google more than anything is just a search engine people tend to depend on. I would say Google is two words, easy and convenient. Its dependable because everyone uses it and has been used it for many years. I don’t think that Google in necessarily a bad thing but I do think that it is not credible. The fact that it makes websites more popular by clicking on it is somewhat frustrating for the users of Google, if I search something I am expecting it to be credible useful information and with using Google I don’t feel like that. I feel as though the main source of Google is to make money. Google is a cooperation looking to make its cooperation larger and bring in money. Many websites work that way. In class we talked about how they went through various shades of the color blue to use for their appearance. Although I believe they should spend more time looking into better things like not having useless websites I think I would be more intrigued. Personally I don’t think that it would matter what color blue they used, however it’s a website and like I said a cooperation. Cooperation’s strive to make money, attracting people in is one of the main uses of a search engine.

         I find that often times these days websites, specifically search engines are no longer considering themselves for just using or finding information but spending a lot of time of what draws the attention of the readers. Comparing it to many things humans tend to do I think they are beginning to focus of the smaller things rather then the bigger things for example finding better credible information. Carr says on page 173 that “Google is motivated by a desire to in Eric Schmidt’s words use technology to solve problems that have never been solved before.” But I disagree when it think that Google is no longer motivated by the desire to use technology to solve problems anymore but motivated by the new advances and competitiveness with other search engines to continue to be the number one website used throughout the world. People fail to realize that Google is not as important and people make it out to believe. I think that it no longer has an interest in the users but rather attracting the users and making it more useful and easier for them instead of focusing on the information it is providing. –Salena Zona