Tuesday, January 6, 2009

New Feature! No need to ring anymore, you can Google search it in case you lose your cellphone




Consider that you are living in a county and you will drive to a friend in another county nearby. Would you go to downtown first and then go to the address, or would you go directly to the address you want? I was more than surprised to see how many people have gotten the habit of surfing the net by google searching the addresses they already know. Maybe they don't use favorites/bookmarks feature, or maybe the net got so fast, it is easier to google search it without thinking about it. One thing is for sure, Google has reinvented the idea of a search engine more than a decade ago and people have changed their surfing habbits accordingly over years. Maybe they didn't have to analyse things in depth too.
  • First years of internet era genius webmasters or advertisers had thought that it would be a good idea to choke the internet user with overwhelming amount of ads on their sites and expect the recently dazed to click on their links by accident or just popping it up their face automatically. However Google designed all of their services as lean as possible, even their ads which were not randomly appearing to the user, but appearing regarding the user's keywords so it would be relevant the the person itself.
  • Primary search engines would only search the keywords typed in and return results in random order or maybe with an algorithm obviously didn't work, since users had to go further to tenth page and still may not find what they would look for. Google collected statistics of people who searched the same or similar keywords and have developed an algorithm returning the results mostly clicked on.
  • While major e-mail providers still were very non user friendly and would provide only 10 MB's of storage, Google offered 1 GB of storage on March, 2004, to it's Gmail users with the service of being free of ads, able to transfer larger files, revolutionary chat-like automatic mail categorization feature.

With the fact that internet users around the world are enjoying Google's services, it is always good to have competition for both consumers and competitors. Google had the idea of simplicity to get where they are. Maybe it's time to actualize that bright idea dwell in mind but never got the motive to do so.

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