Synopsis of The Googlization of Everything In Siva Vaidhyanathan’s The Googlization of Everything, the author discusses some of the concerns he has with society’s growing reliance on Google, not only as a search engine, but also a web provider, telephone service, GPS navigator, social media service, video streamer, document holder, photo saver, email provider, shopping center, commerce regulator, translator, online library, source of current events, or any of the other forms Google can take. The extent to which Google has spread its functions is immense and continues to grow by the day. If society continues to depend on Google as much as it does, it allows Google to become more powerful; that, in itself, should be slightly alarming. Google’s broad expansion has taken over the Internet in a relatively short amount of time, unlike anything our culture has seen before. This makes Google difficult to govern or control; not many people have grasped a proper understanding of how to even go about doing so.
People often forget that Google is an advertisement company. Contrary to common belief, users of Google search are not the consumers, they are the products. Google takes
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One specific example mentioned in the text involves the “Star Wars kid,” a boy whose video of him pretending to wield a light saber went viral, resulting in harassment. The bullying escalated to the point where he had to drop out of school and his family had to move to a different town. Considering this whole circumstance occurred before YouTube existed, one could only imagine the extent to which a situation like this could affect a person’s life today. Throughout the book, Vaidhyanathan tries to inform his audience of the consequences that can occur from carelessness online so that they may be more knowledgeable while on the computer, with Google or
Andrea Schlesinger’s, “In Google We Trust” a chapter in her book The Death of Why? The issue is that the internet has changed people and that it may not be a good thing. Google has changed the way that people think greatly, especially in our ability to analyze, understand and know the source of the information we receive from google.
This is making people dependent on the internet. People are less independent in the way they deal with their emotions, relying entirely upon their desires for physical pleasures instilled by the internet. Through his novel, Feed, M.T. Anderson suggests that if the use of the internet continues to increase, society will become harmfully dependent upon it. People will be reliant on the internet for knowledge and evolve into a lackadaisical, careless society.
Carr, Nicholas. "Is Google Making Us Stupid." July/August 2008. The Alantic Magazine. 20 February 2012 .
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The New Humanities Reader. 4th Boston: Wadsworth, 2012. 67-74. Print
In composing “Is Google Making Us More Stupid” Nicholas Carr wants his audience to be feared by the internet while at the same time he wants his work to seem more creditable. Nicholas Carr uses many different types of evidence to show us that we should be scared and feared as well as his credibility. Carr’s audience is people who think like him, who find themselves getting lost on the internet while reading something, someone who is educated and uses the internet to look up the answers to questions or to read an article or book.
For this assignment I have analyzed Nicholas Carr’s article titled ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’ and Clay Shirky’s rebuttal article titled ‘Why Abundance Is Good.’
The following essay will discuss how the ideas in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, is expressed in the futuristic novel Feed, by M.T Anderson.
This is a fundamental change that is going to happen. At it's simplest,if you take the google search results, the results vary from user to user and increasingly are becoming more familiar with their preferences and habits. The inclination now is to provide more specific results based on previous searches, location and google+ posts alongside other data available to them that you have volunteered. As you continue to use their product you are assisting them in learning more about you and your desires, habits and predilections.
The public’s perception of these two products is very different. Most people see Google as ‘the’ search engine; people have grown up with it and its most people’s first stop when searching for something on the internet, in fact when people are unsure of something they’ll often use the expression “I’ll Google it”, this sums up how important Google is in everyday life. There is however a small problem that accompanies brands that get as big as Google and that is a fear of a monopoly and how much power a company has over the economy/ the entire world.
Google continues to grow and innovate. Google focuses on the user and all else will follow. Since the beginning, they have focused on providing the best user experience possible, and take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve their customers(Google.com n.d.). In relation to market development and product development the core values “Its best to do one thing really, really well (Google.com n.d.),” fits in with these strategies. “You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer (Google.com n.d.),” describes Goggle’s innovation to mobile platforms. “The need for information crosses all borders (Google.com n.d.).” Google company has grown and has offices in more then 60 countries, maintaining more then 180 internet domains, and serve more then half of their results to people outside of the United States, and this relates to concentrated growth strategy. “Great just isn’t good enough(Google.com n.d.).” Google continues to strive to reach for better ways of doing things, through innovation and integration, continue to improve things in unexpected ways (Google.com n.d.).
Google- a web based search engine appointed the world’s most attractive employer 2013 by 200 000 students or potential candidates (Universum, 2013), utilizes job advertisement relatively limited to their corporate website (Google, 2013), this displays the importance of maintaining a continuous interest amongst possible candidates as it creates a platform and contribute to strengthen the
Google is the largest search engine across the globe, which has significantly transformed the use of the Internet as an information source. The influence of Google in Internet use as information source is evident in the fact that by June 2010, it accounted for more than 70 percent of total Internet searches in America. In addition to its success and profitability in the global market, Google is renowned as a highly ethical company as demonstrated in its corporate philosophy features. However, the firm’s behavior during the launch of its China-based search engine in 2006 generated huge skepticism from the United States government and several human rights organizations (Baker & Tang, p.2). Since the launch of Google’s Chinese search engine, the company complied with China’s censorship regulations by deciding to filter out terms that are considered politically sensitive. This decision attracted criticism from political leaders and human rights activists who accused Google of betraying its adopted ethical standards by ignoring the essence of freedom of expression and information access. As a result, Google faced a dilemma involving the clash between law and ethics. In the subsequent years, Google reacted to the dilemma by changing its rhetoric strategies in efforts to respond to the changing needs.
The strategy of Google seems to focus of innovation. Innovation providing superior user experience makes the user promote the application because the customer just love it. This gives rise to more usage, which in turn gives rise to more advertising revenues for Google. More and more products of Google are coming into the lifestyle of user and the strategy appears to completely dominate internet and eventually dominate desktop as well. All Google needs to do is to edit their motto related to categorization /classification of information.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic. (n.d.). The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and life – TheAtlantic.com. Retrieved April 21, 2012, from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/
Many children have access to the internet and are able to search up anything on Google. As with any type of media, there are positive effects and negative effects. Some of the negative effects of the internet for children are that ,since, children and adolescents are more or less technologically savvy than their parents, they are able to search about just about anything and and talk to just about anyone on the internet, this can lead to some very dangerous situations. According to the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, “89% of adolescents report using a computer, 61% report “surfing the net,” and 14% report seeing something that they do not want their parents to know about.” (Villani, 2001) 14% of adolescents reported seeing something that they did not want their parents to know about, this shows how unsupervised the internet is and shows how the internet can lead adolescents to become secretive and , maybe, even violent. Again, this leads to deviant behavior that the child learned from the internet. In addition, according to the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, “... a profile of the recent school killers, noted that almost all were computer-savvy and frequented sites where they could obtain violent, anarchist-oriented material.” (Villani, 2001) This shows that websites that have violent material on the