The Power of Google

I have been thinking about how great it is that everyone in the world can share their thoughts and feelings through blogs online. I think it is great. Although, not too long ago I was searching for some reference material on programming at work. I ended up getting a lot of results in blog format. This made me start to think about the effectiveness of search engines and the vast amount of content that is available for everyone in the world to see. I started to think that about effects that everyone on your block could be blogging up some new material for search engines to categorize and return to their users. I still wonder what this will do to the usefulness of the internet. In the meantime I still like to blog.

To prove my point here are a couple examples of Google finding my blog. One morning before class I wanted to figure where people skateboarded in Beijing, so I typed "beijing skateboard" into Google. Low and behold I got a result from my blog. That was pretty surprising.

Just tonight I was reading the comments on my blog and a person was looking for information on Chengde, a city that IUP took students to for a field trip. He eventually found my blog and then commented on it how he knew some of the people I talked about in my blog. This world is way too small!

Lastly, I just did a search for "IUP Beijing" and came across another link to my blog. I better started making great comments about the teachers.

Another aspect of Google's searching power has really got me started considering naming my children in a way that people can easily Google their names. If anyone else has any stories or thoughts on Googles effects on today's society let me know. I find it interesting.