(A Reflective look at the little search engine that soared!)
All knowing, all seeing, ever present!
Google has permeated into almost every aspect of life on this planet and beyond.
It has become a mainstream fixture for computer and Internet users around the
globe. All the while, cementing its position as the only real facilitator of the
world’s collective intelligence.
Can you remember a day when you have not Googled?
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Have you used Google Earth to promote the highest quality teaching and learning within your classroom? Have you challenged your students to use G.E. to answer innovative and insightful questions? If not, I believe that you are missing an important and free learning tool.
At first glance, G.E. is obviously about geography. But, it is good for so much more. Consider the innovative folks at Google LitTrips who have developed Google Earth lessons related to the most popular trade books read in today’s classrooms. Certainly, considering literature through a lens of G.E. helps students understand literary concepts from a different perspective. (By the way, if you are not familiar with Google LitTrips do what any tech-savvy individual would do in the Twenty First Century, Google it.)
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Can The Goliath of Internet Search Be Slain?
Who would have predicted that seven years ago two friends with an idea and a little ambition, working in a garage, would one day revolutionize internet search advertising? Then again, looking back on the personal computing industry and how it got started, we could ask the same. Once again this shows us just how much possibility is yet to be discovered in personal computing.
Just six letters, one simple word, with tremendous value, is becoming one of the most recognized trademarks on the internet. Google, founded by two college friends – Larry Page and Sergey Brin from Stanford University – has succeeded in becoming the world’s number one search engine and in just a few years.
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