100 simple things we take for granted: #16 Google

16# Google

By Sparklingjem
In the before time, the long long ago, life was really hard. If you had a question B.G. you had to ask your parents or someone else “older and wiser” for the answer. People lived in a disillusioned world, aware that their parents didn’t know too much more than they did. Then one day came something that would change everything. It would bring all the knowledge in the world right to our fingertips, defeat ignorance once and for all and help parents maintain the illusion of knowing stuff… or so we thought.

Okay, so it actually just exposed us to the general ignorance of the world. However it is still AWESOMELY COOL!!

Google has, in the 14 years of it’s existence, evolved to the search engine equivalent of fancy smartphone or a swiss army knife. It has a million functions, some that are really useful and some that are just weird. I might not ever need to scan barcodes but it’s nice that my phone can. Likewise, I might not ever need to compare quotes of American presidential candidates, have my google page translated into '”Bork, bork, bork!” or find out what the terrible deplorable things that can happen when you mix "2 girls and one Cup", but Google can do it anyway.

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Here the 5 most AWESOME reasons we shouldn’t take Google for granted.

5. Google shares our opinion about Justin Bieber

Woman maybe, but post pubescent male is unlikely.....

4. Google maps can give you directions… and tell you the best way to travel.

I mean really, is there any other way to get across the Pacific Ocean. Well, according to Google you could swim or kayak. I think I’ll go with the jet ski.

3. Google Doodles

Google loves reminding us of reasons to celebrate, from national holidays to birthdays of awesome people and anniversaries of awesome things. Like Pac-Man. For the 30th anniversary of the legendary game, Google created the worlds first playable logo, bringing office productivity to a standstill for 48 hours.

2. They really did start in a garage

Google is a real dotcom fairytale. Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as a research project in 1996. Two years later it became Google Inc. operating from a friends garage and employing fellow Stanford computer science graduate as it’s first employee.

1. “google” is a verb.


Due to the fact that Google processes over one billion search requests a day, making it the number one search engine, the phrase “Just Google It” is know more recognizable than the Nike slogan and involves significantly less third world, under paid, child workers.

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