I don’t know what you were doing yesterday, but I doubt it was celebrating Google’s 25 years in existence.
I am like most people, as very few of us can go a day without using the search engine. It has all the answers to everything we ever wanted to know. I think this has made us all dumber, so we don’t have to retain anything. We just go to Google and find it.
Google has become a part of our vernacular (I had to Google it to learn what that meant). We use it as a noun (which is obviously “Google”); verb (as in “to Google” something); an adjective (as in it’s “Googlable”), so it isn’t just a thing, it is part of our everyday language. It is even in the Merriam-Webster dictionary…and that is a HUGE honor.
It has to make you wonder, what would life be like without Google. I am thinking life would move a lot slower, we would be filled with a lot more useless trivia and bullshit that is untrue…chances are we would have a hell of a lot more privacy.
Regardless, Google was created this week in 1996 and look at it now, it’s all growed up. 25 is a big deal and now Google is more than a just s search engine, it’s working toward dominance in taking over the place as a free Microsoft Office replacement, phone company, they already destroyed MapQuest as the go-to map, it is now a driving assistant, a replacement for TV (and a general time waster), calendar/day planner, phone operating system, shopping mall replacement…and the list goes on (see it all here).
While, in many ways, Google has become a HUGE help in making us be more self-sufficient. Without it many of us couldn’t replace a toilet or figure out where the term “Karen” came from. But it is a bit creepy, as I have had many a conversation with someone and as soon as I open Google, suggested articles and links just seem to suggest the very topic I was talking about.
So, I guess, Happy Anniversary to Google. Without you, I wouldn’t have the most accurate spell check and this article would read like good old fashioned American Gibberish. (Google the word “Gibberish” and you can figure out what it means).
It’s kind of like the word “Malarkey”, it sounds old and it is a nice way to say “Bullshit”…and I didn’t need to Google that.