In this high-tech era, when everybody talks about
‘What Next’, it is very difficult to say exactly as to how this entire world
would be able to work without Google – the most frequently visited website in
the world.
Google is a huge company which employs more than
30,000 people. There are a wide range of applications offered by Google and
many of them are completely free. Users have the flexibility of using e-mail
or Gmail and Google Docs for the purpose of sharing
different types of documents. Google offers maps for the purpose of
navigation, Calendar for organizing different activities during the
week.
Apart from this, Google offers analytics for
the purpose of tracking statistics about a website and blogger for
setting up an attractive blog for professional as well as personal purposes.
Lineup of services offered by Google also includes Google
Patents, Scholar, Finance, Groups and Google+ for
social networking. You also get the Image search option which enables you to
get hold of the best images that you would like to use. Not to mention, Google
search engine which has completely revolutionized the whole procedure of
getting useful information on the internet? There are a lot of things offered
by Google for accomplishing a number of tasks without putting in much effort
and also without spending much money.
With the availability of so many features on the
Smartphones despite the fact one don’t have time to make use of all those. If there was no Google then to find
everything on search engine, people would need to talk to each other more.
Forums will start to be bombarded with small queries. People would often meet
up in big groups to discuss things as there was no Google to tell them stuff.
Instead of Googling everything whenever they wanted, people would try and
remember more stuff. As is the case with phone book in mobiles, we no longer
remember phone numbers of our family or friends. Same is with Google. We don’t
even make an effort to remember stuff because we know we can Google it any time
we want.
If there is no Google, the researchers will spend
most of the time in the library to consult books for references. The writers and reporters will have to keep a
reference bank to link their write-ups and news.
Let me share one incident when I used to keep a
notebook, even now, with me to note down
every new number. Most of the people ask
me as to why you keep it when the new Smartphones have in-built memory with
provision of extra insertion of memory card.
I tell them that once I could not retrieve my data with the change of
mobile set, I had to rebuild the whole data.
Thanks to the true-caller software, which display the name of the caller
if the same is not saved in the device otherwise one has to use his extra
sensory memory to recognize the voice of the caller.
Frankly speaking, one incident which I cannot fail
to remember is that once I forget to take with me the notebook of contact
numbers on way to distant station. But
when I had to make an important call to one of my close relative to visit
Chandigarh on the next day positively to fill up the form for applying for the purchase
of a plot being the last day, whose number was not unfortunately saved in my
mobile, I was helpless. But my daughter asked me to search on Facebook, Lokesh
Uncle, must be having his account and might have mentioned his contact number.
Acting on the advice of the young generation, I
could locate him on the social media to get his number and conveyed the
message. He luckily, later on, got the allotment of a plot in the prime
location of Chandigarh in the draw. But today I am thinking – What if there was
no Google. Hats off to Google, for
making every information available with the click of the mouse and touch of the
thumb now. I have however now started thinking for any odd situation to come
from What if, no Google to What next?
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