Although businesses obviously are in the habit of conducting business to make money – that doesn’t make them bad, does it? Google has hundreds of PHD bearing employees who are uber-smart – and simply sit and figure out what else they can do with this ever increasingly large database of data.
Now, with tools like Google Desktop, they are able to utilize that download to collect additional information about you, the web surfer, allowing them to better provide results for you – as they have a better idea what you are looking for.
Remember, no one is forcing the use of all these Google tools at you – people WANT to use them because they are handy, and darnit – they work.
Google is the biggest threat to Microsoft. In fact, during a recent CEO dinner, Bill Gates was discussing Google with the CEO of a Consumer Electronics Retailer. His single response of “Google” was in answer to the question, “What keeps you awake at night Mr. Gates?”
Google’s here to provide what we want. Simply, without fanfare. What’s wrong with that?
This Google toy, Google Desktop 2 is about 1.4Mb to download and in addition to the features the Sidebar has, Google Desktop 2 has also a really great search module. You’ve searched your hard drive using Windows built-in search, right? It’s slow, VERY slow. And if your computer actually has need a format c for a long time already, like mine does, then to search for … lets say .avi files in your computer, it takes ages, up to 10 minutes I have discovered. And I have AMD 1700 . Google Desktop 2 does the search for me in a matter of seconds. Yes, new version of windows will allegedly also contain this sort of fast search. However, right now I don’t really miss that anymore.
Simply put – Google rocks. I don’t really want to sound like I’m the sales agent for the Google Corporation. Especially as I’m not getting paid for it, especially because of that. However, Google has provided us, the web users, lots of tools that make our lives easier. And most of their tools are rather good. So if you didn’t know about them, you definitely should learn about them a bit more. Even Google search engine, their main product, is making waves and has done so already for a very long time. All SEO (Search Engine Optimization) forums are full of google related discussions. Everyone wants a piece of what Google has to offer.
[Source: Google toys]
