Apprehension

well before reading further just guess what this will be for.....apprehensions about my future?my life?my career???

well now i'll try to act a little 'geeky'....

the apprehension is about GOOGLE...

the company going private and growing into becoming the default page of most of the people...(iam referring to countries like spain --- 99%search traffic being through google....same being the case with India).

from being just a search engine to becoming a part of every netizen....in some way or the other, it is an integral part of our lives.

in the past year i have become so dependant on google that i have told my roommate several times that instead of having normal exams we should have open-google exams.

i use their talk servers.
i use their blogging facility.
i use their search facility.
i use their social-networking facility.
i use their vedio sharing facility.
i use their photo-sharing facility.
i use their google-earth.(and wonder what's google mars?????but google space sounds exciting).
i use google desktop.
i know a bit about google labs,google spreadsheets...............( i dont want to tax my memory to fill the entire page.)

the point i am making is that it's all over.
and the newest areas where it is coming is 'digital library' ,'entertainment','media','radio(now that was freaky)' and yes magazines...

iam not saying that currently its not like everybody's best friend....it helps us in some way or the other....always being around...
but then i have had a few arguments with my roommate on this.....
imagine one morning you get to know google has started to charge you for every search that you make.

for every packet you send through their servers...be it from talk,you-tube,vedios,earth etc etc.
(then how worse is MS????....it charges me for all the services it provides...sorry linux fans....and yes windows is much easier...the way google is).
i'll not talk about all that data that they store to streamline your search or all the cookies that they store(i recollect it is 21 years!!!).....because then they can be legally charged.
but yes imagine that you have to ask google to read some book.....???

as soon as i have to search something i type google(which is missplelt) and yet it magically opens google. and even if google charges money my fingers will involuntarily type GOOGLE.....
google works on the 80-20principle (and thats the most attractive thing about google)..........
but google has worked its magic so that their customers defy the same.