Google handles over one Billion queries per day. People use Google for almost every online activity, when they want to recall an old website it’s faster to type it on Google and click it than to type it’s own web address.
Image via Wikipedia
Google is the most used search engine on Earth, this is not new, however the information that Google can display is very limited and only a few are aware of it, including you after this article. Google can give you only a small introduction about each query you submit. Let’s take information on investing and banking. Google will either display sites where you can invest or sites with an article or two about investments. The information you find on Google is very similar to the information you find in a newspaper, it’s simple, very short and most of all almost redundant. If you search on Google for small things such as information about the weather or sites where you can search for a car, Google works just fine, but when you want to know big about a subject, Google is definitely not for you.
Why this article now? I made almost 35000 Google searches and it’s two weeks now that I make less than 20 searches a day when in the past around 200 was my normal. I just realized that Google never teaches you a thing. Why? After reading a book on Atlantis and a book about Hypnosis I realized how limited Google is in giving you knowledge. Look at Google (I say Google because it’s what most people use, now I use Dogpile) like a book with just the Title and big introduction with no depth. Google is improving knowledge in “ignorant” people but at the same time Google is making those “ignorant” people even more ignorant because of the search results.
Where can you find real information about a topic? In almost any book, not not certainly on websites you find on Google. Give Amazon a shot. Now you understand why Google is now so interested in books don’t you?
September 21st, 2009 at 10:29 pm
interesting write and nice insight.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 am
Very interesting. We should be more critical of the sources where we get information from. But I’ve found Google Scholar to be quite good for a free service.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 am
Google has been the number search engine, now Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search seems to merge to have a bigger search engine to compete with Google. I also have read recently that Google is interested in coming out with e-books. Nice article.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:03 am
Interesting article.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I don’t see why you’re trying to blame Google for what people put on their sites, Google can’t control that… but books are definitely better sources of specific knowledge. If you have a low understanding for what you’re searching for the internet is better because it will explain what it is and then give information about it.