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sohigh
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 Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:51 am Post subject: Is Google God? |
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This article is posted on NYT in the year of 2003. I wonder many people have read it. Do you think google can find anything? Most time I can not find the information I needed in google, too mach to find?
| Quote: | Is Google God? [ or is Friedman an idiot? ]
By Thomas L. Friedman
The New York Times, June 29, 2003
Since 9/11 the world has felt increasingly fragmented. Reading the papers, one senses that many Americans are emotionally withdrawing from the world and that the world is drifting away from America. The powerful sense of integration that the go-go-globalizing 1990's created, the sense that the world was shrinking from a size medium to a size small, feels over now.
The reality, though, is quite different. While you were sleeping after 9/11, not only has the process of technological integration continued, it has actually intensified -- and this will have profound implications. I recently went out to Silicon Valley to visit the offices of Google, the world's most popular search engine. It is a mind-bending experience. You can actually sit in front of a monitor and watch a sample of everything that everyone in the world is searching for. (Hint: s*x, God, jobs and, oh my word, professional wrestling usually top the lists.)
In the past three years, Google has gone from processing 100 million searches per day to over 200 million searches per day. And get this: only one-third come from inside the U.S. The rest are in 88 other languages. "The rate of the adoption of the Internet in all its forms is increasing, not decreasing," says Eric Schmidt, Google's C.E.O. "The fact that many [Internet companies] are in a terrible state does not correlate with users not using their products."
VeriSign, which operates much of the Internet's infrastructure, was processing 600 million domain requests per day in early 2000. It's now processing nine billion per day. A domain request is anytime anyone types in .com or .net. And you ain't seen nothin' yet. Within the next few years you will be able to be both mobile and totally connected, thanks to the pending explosion of Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity. Using radio technology, Wi-Fi will provide high-speed connection from your laptop computer or P.D.A. to the Internet from anywhere -- McDonald's, the beach or your library.
Says Alan Cohen, a V.P. of Airespace, a new Wi-Fi provider: "If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. Which is why I say that Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too."
In other words, once Wi-Fi is in place, with one little Internet connection I can download anything from anywhere and I can spread anything from anywhere. That is good news for both scientists and terrorists, pro-Americans and anti-Americans.
And that brings me to the point of this column: While we may be emotionally distancing ourselves from the world, the world is getting more integrated. That means that what people think of us, as Americans, will matter more, not less. Because people outside America will be able to build alliances more efficiently in the world we are entering and they will be able to reach out and touch us -- whether with computer viruses or anthrax recipes downloaded from the Internet -- more than ever.
"The key point is not just whether people hate us," says Robert Wright, the author of "Nonzero," a highly original book on the integrated world. "The key point is that it matters more now whether people hate us, and will keep mattering more, for technological reasons. I don't mean just homemade W.M.D.'s. I am talking about the way information technology -- everyone using e-mail, Wi-Fi and Google -- will make it much easier for small groups to rally like-minded people, crystallize diffuse hatreds and mobilize lethal force. And wait until the whole world goes broadband. Broadband -- a much richer Internet service that brings video on demand to your PC -- will revolutionize recruiting, because video is such an emotionally powerful medium. Ever seen one of Osama bin Laden's recruiting videos? They're very effective, and they'll reach their targeted audience much more efficiently via broadband."
None of this means we, America, just have to do what the world wants, but we do have to take it seriously, and we do have to be good listeners. We, America, "have to work even harder to build bridges," argues Mr. Wright, because info-tech, left to its own devices, will make it so much easier for small groups to build their own little island kingdoms. And their island kingdoms, which may not seem important or potent now, will be able to touch us more, not less.
© 2003 The New York Times Company
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Mayur
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| To tell you the truth I did not even read that thing. It is way too long. hehe. |
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jeramy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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i didnt read it either but:
No google is not God.
If you are holding or even thinking about holding google as a higher form of anything religious, please shutdown your computer and go outside to get some air. |
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Mayur
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| jeramy wrote: | i didnt read it either but:
No google is not God.
If you are holding or even thinking about holding google as a higher form of anything religious, please shutdown your computer and go outside to get some air. |
Haha. Yea I bet there are some wackos out there worship Google. They have no life. I am just a google fan. hehe. |
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Felman
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| mayur1130 wrote: | | jeramy wrote: | i didnt read it either but:
No google is not God.
If you are holding or even thinking about holding google as a higher form of anything religious, please shutdown your computer and go outside to get some air. |
Haha. Yea I bet there are some wackos out there worship Google. They have no life. I am just a google fan. hehe. |
Google is nice. Name my kid jr.google. haha jk
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tntcheats
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'm gunna name my kid Kidoogle.
Either that or Xang. (I'm not AZN, I just like the name Xang.)
Maybe... Xanginderhoot...
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Felman
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| Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Tnt.... tisk tisk tisk....*shakes head*
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:45 am Post subject: |
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three sentances. two unconnected names  what is happening to you tntcheats? |
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tntcheats
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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Lack of sleep, cvrk3, lack of sleep.
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nazgulking929
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| jeramy wrote: | i didnt read it either but:
No google is not God.
If you are holding or even thinking about holding google as a higher form of anything religious, please shutdown your computer and go outside to get some air. |
Im going with the penguin.
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Ashes
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject: Re: Is Google God? |
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Figure of speech people. Come on.
| sohigh wrote: | | Do you think google can find anything? |
I don't think it can find anything, but I can normally find everything I look for.
Just yesterday, I found a comic that I had forgotten the name of just by entering the location where it was set and "comic". That's pretty nice.
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I found a site where I could order the original copy of Amazing Fantasy #15...it was VERY cheap compared to other places so I got it...and it was mint condition and I know the person in real life but didn't know he had that comic and I never would've unless I had popped "Spiderman first comic" into google  ..still expensive though(I have plenty of extra cash to spend gladly)...
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