All About Google

Close your eyes and picture the internet, I bet there's a good chance you are thinking of Google right now. Google has taken the world by storm since its founding. Let's take a deep dive into the history and the amazing impact Google has had on society and the world. \

Google is an American founded website search engine. It was created by two Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Ever Since Google's founding it has taken over the world which is honestly kind of scary! In fact in 2023 Google was responsible for 98.2% of the market share which shows how much of a dominant search engine it is. Google also gets 8.5 billion searches a day which is truly insane to think about. I think that information alone proves how much we really rely on the internet and technology to communicate with one another. Google makes anything and mostly everything available to us at our fingertips. In 2013 Google had an internet shortage ( basically it stopped working) for five minutes and due to that forty percent of the world’ internet usage dropped. That proves that as a society we really do depend on Google to get our information, and really live our life. 

Without google nothing is available to us. Google is our gateway to information and our way to connect with the world. With that being said it is our way to access information that may not be good or valuable. It can also lead to misinformation which can lead to bad communication. The use of google can also lead to cyberbullying and cruel information online. If we did not have google people would not be able to access the websites online that lead to cyberbullying and misinformation. I often think about the January 6th riots and wonder if we did not have google or the power to get on websites or social media sites would the riots or protests would have happened? I also wonder if without google and the internet we would not be as divided in political views. If we did not have the power to share information or create accounts expressing our political views, maybe we wouldn't be as divided as a country or be so vocal about political views. Google is a truly amazing resource but with all good things there are some negatives but overall I do find Google truly amazing and could not imagine life without it. Google also has many resources now like google maps, google earth, google scholar, google images, google chrome, and doodle for google. 

I can not imagine a world without google. I personally use google chrome which is google's fast and free internet web browser ( https://blog.google/products/chrome/) for almost everything I do. Without google I could not do anything I do on a regular basis. I wouldn't be able to communicate with loved ones overseas, complete homework assignments, and everything else the internet provides for us. Google is truly amazing and provides us the ability to know anything.