Thursday, July 22, 2010

IS GOOGLE=GOD ??

I am ubiquitous! I am omniscient! I posses everything you need! I am ever-growing! I am not GOD. Then guess who I am?
The answer quiet candidly is “GOOGLE”.
Be it college students, professionals, journalists, engineers or the scientists; the first and the foremost thing that comes in their mind when they encounter the need of any sort of information is “GOOGLE”. Whether we accept or not we have become inseparable and extremely dependent on it.
Today we thrive in such a feeling devoid world where the frontiers between the internet and human relationships have become murky, the “i-factor” has become gravely associated with our lives and as a result, the GOOGLism has emerged as a vital and prominent aspect of our lives. In the age of the Internet nothing seems impossible and everything is effortlessly fetched.
Wanna make friends? Facebook is there. Wanna travel? Make my trip is there. Wanna interact? Switch on to Google Talk. Thinking of getting married? Shaadi.com is there. Wanna complete assignments? Wikipedia is there. I think that’s enough......
A large section of people have even started to believe that Google should rightfully be given the title of “GOD”. The Church Of Google is an organization formed by such a section of people and they even produce nine proofs to prove their point. They boast of its omniscience, omnipresence, infiniteness, immortality, omni-benevolence, magnanimity, omni-reminiscence, envision-ability and also answers our queries. But the idiosyncrasy between the God and the Google can be indubitably stated . The veteran search engine is devoid of any feelings and bestows us with information and not knowledge, of which God is the only source. Information is just a transient data which might be altered in the very next minute! Knowledge on contrary is permanent, universal, beneficial and something abstract which connects the works with our soul. God is the creator and the Google is human-created. The Google had got such an importance in our lives due to our own tendency to make relationships, our very innate nature. The Googlists themselves claim Facebook, Twitter and their respective Spanish and Turkish counterparts to be among top five searches on Google in 2009, this very fact proves the point.
“God is subtle, but he is not malicious.” Albert Einstein once said. But Google is a versatile tool for hackers, an active cause of teen related cyber crimes, piracy, phishing and a platform for illicit sharing of contents etc.
In Economics, it’s believed that there is nothing so called a Free-Lunch. Everything has got its virtues as well as vices. It is us who are free to decide and of what we want to be a part of!

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