How much of your life is Google’d!

Bob Cringely“It starts out as a convenience, becomes a habit, then a necessity, and finally an addiction.”

That is how Robert X.Cringley succinctly sums up the Google phenomenon!

Here is a partial list of the Google’s on line services – or staple offerings in addition to the Numero Uno status on web search (you don’t search any more, you merely Google it!):

  1. The ubiquitous Gmail (still Beta!)
  2. Online productivity suite – Docs, spreadsheets, presentations..
  3. Picasa web albums for storing and sharing images – may be a shade less popular than the professional looking Flickr of Yahoo!
  4. Blogger – that ushered in a “push-button” publishing revolution
  5. YouTube – the video service that has made itself a generic term for anything video; (and you are living in a “Youtube era”!)
  6. Orkut, the social networking app – though lagging behind Facebook and Myspace in popularity
  7. Google apps and labs – the production suite of geeks – Android, Gear, Ajax API’s, App engines, OpenSocial – the list is endless
  8. Google maps, Google Earth – mind-boggling stuff!
  9. Google Talk – mark my words, it will beat Skype soon!
  10. Adsense, the intelligent ad-inserting service that has turned blogging profitable – “pro-bloggers”, anyone!
  11. And Feedburner, Notebook, Calender, Reader, iGoogle, …

And when Google servers experienced a brief outage last week the sky almost fell on many addicts.

So much for the perils of getting too dependent on Google, or, any one particular service.

One thought on “How much of your life is Google’d!

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