Googleayanamaha!

By Guest Blogger at 10 January, 2010, 10:54 pm

You can’t run and you can’t hide, because no matter where you go, from the highlands of Himalayas to Kanyakumari, southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, Google will find you for sure…with its enumerable softwares. It might use Google Earth’s new application Google Path, which takes you on a visual tour of every footpath or animal trail in the world. Or it might dial you in with Cerebroogle, a new application that allows one man in Google’s headquarters to read the minds of every human being on earth.

Google has been the biggest discovery of recent times. What originated out of a common spelling error of the word ‘googol’ today controls our lives, well not as melodramatically as you might think, but if someone today has the power to play God, then it’s Google. It has harmlessly (arguably) seeped in our daily lives and it’s difficult to imagine a life without it.

A while back two guys were trying to find a a small city on the outskirts of Chandigad. From that one guy couldn’t find the place on Google Earth, post which his first reaction was, “are aisi koi jagah hai hi nahi, nahi to google pe mil jata yaar”. Yes for us now a days if it not on Google it possibly doesn’t exist at all.

The internet is central to life in the 21st century. Well but I will not blame any one for this, because Google is virtually everywhere on earth at the same time. Our generation and the next as well hardly see the face of books. For us the internet is the biggest book. It’s like your own printing press. Our generation has forgotten going to libraries, referencing from books and then writing it out. After seeing all this I do admit that indeed God Google has made us slaves for life. Slaves because we cant even think a word without our ‘God’. We now actually need Google for even starting to think.

I really admire journalists and writers of olden days and also Hats off to them for managing without Google’s web spider which ‘crawls’ the web to get you what you want. Wonder what life was like before two kids from the Stanford dorm started Google Inc.

Google has become our map and our clock, and our typewriter, our binoculars, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV.

Can we live without GOD?
YES.
Can we live without GOOGLE?
No!
Well this is going to be the reaction of the GenX in the near future
So don’t be astonished!

Ketaki Khedekar, a journalist has just completed her Post Graduate course in journalism from MET Mass Media

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