One of the most interesting chapters that I read in the book, The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, is the chapter based on Google. The thing that I found is that most people overlook the fact about how powerful Google really has become. When someone wants to look something up online, automatically, they think to Google it. The company has even become so powerful that is often used as a verb, not as the proper noun. Google has other things that most search engines do not really have. Google can learn from you, and what you have previously searched. It gives you very fast results, with around 175,000,000 results available in right around 0.13 seconds. You can search for words in a song, movie times, facts on your favorite sporting teams, how to make a bomb, and virtually anything that you can think. 

Carr did not really have a lot of positive things to say about Google, as he says that it is causing everyone to think differently, and that it is changing the way we live. I somewhat believe that this is true. When I use to do a research project, I would have to go to the library, go through numerous books, and try to find information. Now, with Google, all I have to do it type what I am looking for into a search bar, and I can find almost anything that I need to. He spent a lot of his time talking about all of the bad things that Google has done, and none of the positives that the company has done for the world. 

Google, as a company has caused the whole world to change the way that we look at things. They have changed the face of the internet, and all that we know about it. In class we were asked if we thought if Google was an important corporation to the world. I not only think that they are very important to the world, but that they are important to the way that we live our lives in this modern era. They enable us to get us information very easily, and to do research at the tips of your fingers. 

-Drew Loiselle