This past September Google officially became a teenager. Google, like a human, is growing into a teenager with an attitude, social skills, and a more competitive edge. It also thinks it knows everything. As it is growing in age, Google is growing as a company. When Google was born it had just one employee. In 13 years they have almost 30,000 employees.
Since Google’s birth, it has been innocently shutting down other engines like Magellan and InfoSeek. But will it get a little sassier to try and shut down Bing? Only time will tell. Although Google’s attitude may begetting a little feisty, it is trying to become more social.
In June, Google launched a trial run of Google+, a social network. They say it is safer than Facebook because there are levels of friendship. According to Google,“putting everyone under the ‘friends’ label hurts the ability to share. It becomes sloppy, scary, and insensitive.” Google+ has just been released for public use in September. If all goes well, they may be going following Apple’s path of taking over the world.
Along with trying to outshine Facebook, Google seems to be trying to take over Microsoft Office. Google has a feature called Google Docs,a free online combination of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Although it has been out for a while, it has become increasingly popular. You can share your documents with others, chat in real time with others viewing your document, and publish online.
With all this improvement in a fairly short amount of time,who knows what goodies Google has in store for it’s first year as a “young adult”. Will it blossom and grow even larger? Will it become more accurate in finding what you’re searching for? Will it get more aggressive in its competition with Bing? Will it become a social butterfly? No one quite knows yet. We will just have to wait these next 365 days to see what happens.
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