Google's effect

Some of us may wonder what the biggest influence on our world is. Is it television, radio, or newspaper? While these may seem a little old they are still highly influential to our society today. But I believe one of our other biggest influences is the internet. Most of us use the internet everyday for many different uses. To use the internet we usually need a search engine to find different things. The most popular search engine used is Google. In the following paragraphs I will describe Google’s effect here and abroad on traditional media, computing and government policy and law.

In the United States, Google affects the media in many different ways. Google has acquired different aspects of business in the media. Google has its own broadcasting company that improves many different areas of broadcasting. One of Google’s broadcasting companies is AdSense. This company is dedicated to improving video quality and effects. Some of the companies that could benefit from this is Youtube and any other video viewing company. There is more information at this link http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/10/meet-the-google-broadcasting-company-adsense-video-units-are-game-changing.ars . Another one of Google’s more recent ventures is the broadcasting GPS feature enabled on Google maps. This feature allows you to broad cast your location to select friends with your cell phone. This is an application used word wide which affects both the United States and the rest of the world. You can read more about this feature at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/broadcast-your-location-to-friends-with-google-latitude/ . Google’s different applications for broadcasting are used all over the world. These different applications are used by different people everywhere for many different reasons to improve their life.

Google has also been experimenting with different kinds of telephone companies. Google has influenced many companies to do things in a different way so that it would benefit them more. Google has recently acquired a telephone company and has been offering service to users such as free domestic phone calls and international calls at a much lower price than most carriers. This branch of Google could benefit both the nation and the world with its more reliable phone service and lower rates. Read more at http://www.tgdaily.com/consumer-electronics-features/41705-google-introduces-telephone-services . Google has affected the world with being the first most widely used search engine. In the United States we can “google” anything and everything. We can find the information to anything from nuclear weapons to a simple sugar cookie recipe. However, Google isn’t used the same in all countries. In China some information is withheld from its citizens because the communist government doesn’t want them to know about certain things. You could say that Google plays for both sides. Google has revolutionized the way we find things on the internet. You can read more about Google’s beginnings and other information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google.

When it comes to the government and the law Google plays a major part. Google monitors what people search everyday and how often they search it. This information is useful in different areas. The United States government can control what most people want to search, how they search it, and what searches appear first. An example of this is when a flu epidemic breaks out Google and the government can modify the search engine to have its first results show up as examples of flu symptoms, how to get rid of the flu and how to get the flu vaccine. This helps the nation from spreading the sickness. You can read more about this at http://www.naturalnews.com/025144_Google_internet_surveillance.html . Google also has its own search engine for the United States Government. Anyone in the United States can use this search engine to find out different kinds of government information. In some other countries you cannot access this search engine because their government doesn’t want them to know anything about the United States Government. You can access this search engine at http://www.google.com/unclesam .

There is no doubt that Google has a lot of control over what we as a nation and world view on a search engine. Some people might argue that Google sensors most of what we see and only shows what the government wants us to see. Google has been a very useful tool in advancing and growing with the World Wide Web. It is highly efficient and reliable search engine but like most things it can be modified to fit out governments wants. As I stated before in most countries Google highly censored against most government information so that the people don’t know more than the government thinks they should. Not everything is on the web is shown in all places. The search engine Google has a large effect on the world as a whole. Google decides what we see when we search a certain word or specific phrase. Google as a whole has a great effect on our world than most people might think.