I woke up this morning snoozing around and wondering about the answer to the question ‘Life without google’? As this is something that I saw in my dreams. As I woke up, I tried to enunciate the facts from the dream to the people around from my family. For instance, it was complete silence than a lisping broke the silence asking ‘What is google?’
It was Lavy, three years old future tech-savvy who wanted to know everything about this ‘Net’ of internet world as soon as possible. It is quite obvious with today’s generation who is relying on and is almost dependent on internet services say it for academic, personal, professional or any other need.
So what should be the answer to the second question first?
‘What is Google’ if I had to answer this to someone parallel to my age it would be an insane to answer this or if some serious answer would have been required then I would have come up with this list of products and services Google provides. I will name a few here:
- Web Based Products which includes search tools, advertising services, development tools, communication and publishing tools, Map-related products, security tools, statistical tools and much more.
- Operating system for various devices such as Android, Chrome, Google Tv, Android Wear, android Auto, Android Tv and so on. These devices include smart phones, computer systems, laptops and other electronic gadgets.
- Google provides the range of desktop applications which are used friendly thus easy to use. These applications include Google Chrome, Google Earth, Google toolbar, AdWords Editor, Input tools, Google web designer, it’s useful cloud base platform called Google drive, Photos backup application and lot more is available in this section of services.
- Google is leading in mobile applications segment with its variety of applications. Primarily these mobile applications services are available as Mobile Web applications which can be accessed through a browser on the mobile phone and another is Mobile standalone applications in which some of this need to be downloaded to run on a mobile device.
- In a hardware segment too Google has its recognizable presence with products from Driverless car to Google Glass, Google Contact lens, range of products under Nexus series, Chrome book, Chrome Cast, Chrome box and what not, today things are changing rapidly so as technology and Google is definitely in race and even leading in most of the services.
- Google cloud platform, Google Crisis response, Google Fiber, Google ideas, Google person finder are some of the other services provided by Google to ease the life off common man using technology at its advanced mode.
A lot is described here to the extent where one needs not to answer the second question anymore. Google is the synonym to Internet search today, you ask for the details of any service or product, you name it and you will find it on this amazing platform. Today almost everything related to the virtual and online world is available on its network of products and services. We have a plethora of services like a search engine, email service, IM service, a blogging platform, video & photo sharing applications, feed reader, an online word processor, an encyclopedia, an online directory, a website creator and what not!
As Google is the giant in web search based services today it is obvious to ask how the ‘Perfect Search engine’ should look alike or it should work? The answer according to Larry Page, Google’s co-founder, is something that ‘understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want’ and this is what Google is doing today.
So coming to the first question Life without Google- What are the options?
In a broad perspective what if you search something and it shows the result, ‘No results found’, that is exactly the condition would be of life when you left with no results ‘When you do not have Google search engine services in life’.
When we go into daily life situations whole digital community searches something on this platform almost every day. You cannot find reference books, literature all the times or can’t find the person who can tell the answer to your query in all situations.
We have to rush to some place and need route assistance to reach there; you have digital maps on this amazing platform so in some sense this service has distinct paper maps to carry every time. You can go miles even without rolling the car window down to ask for the route or to stop the bike to ask anything about directions.
You might have faced those moments when you were scolded by a teacher or you fumbled upon the correct spelling of a word and you ended up doing dictionary search. But with online search engines, you can put this situation at bay as you have everything available related to your spelling worries here.
Learning languages was considered a phenomenal job at some point in time but with Google’s free online language translation service you can instantly translate text and web pages in almost all prominent languages in a fraction of second’s time. So you need not be worried about exchanging your views with the person who is not known to your language or to understand his/her point of view.
Searching people on Google isn’t new hence it was in use even before the existence of Facebook, Twitter or any other social media platform. Search for anything with some details on this platform and you will find almost everything related to the person or an object with its details from social media, personal information, pictures and much more. Students, academicians and people from reading and writing block can imagine it as the worst nightmare when they do not have access to quick and reliable information.
You can use a variety of mobile applications from Google based Android platform to watch videos, songs, you can check on the maps, can play games, can do a lot with your photos and much more to avail from these mobile-based services. These applications make your life easier as access to these apps is very quick and efficient.
Hardware is another section where this conglomerate is putting a lot of efforts to make the life of a common man easy and comfortable. Driverless car, Contact lens with advanced features, Google Glass, Chrome book, Chrome Cast is amongst other many services. And not to forget cloud services by it to provide better and enhanced storage capacity for digital data.
Options or Substitutions:
Frankly speaking, there are certain substitutes available for Google products and services but they do not have an as large presence as Google has. Just because of quick and reliable services and its intense research and development activities company is at top brands of the world. Despite company’s broad reach and effective services still you can get away from its services as it may cost you with some of these replacement services.
The other option to substitute Google is to go indigenous like China has done but it takes a lot of efforts and time to develop another platform such as this.
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