Sunday, June 20, 2004
Google is the Internet
Yes. Google is the internet. When you think about it, without Google, half of the internet would be dead. Let me explain myself a little bit. I was thinking about it the other day, if Google didn't exist, this site wouldn't exist. Well, technically it wouldn't exist. Blogger is the backend of my blog, and of course Blogger is a part of, hosted and owned by Google. Not only does it have a brilliant back end of most blogs, it hosts probably hundreds (I haven't checked) of blogs. My site generates around 100MB or traffic a month (and this is only a recent figure as hints on my blog has picked up), I'm sure there are other blogs out there with three times as much traffic, if not more. All while this bandwidth is being used up, Blogger has not ceased. (Unless you happen to have had a blog on weblogs. Different host, different story :-P). This may seem like a ploy to get more hits or something similar, but it's all true.
Without Google, I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered starting a site, nor would I have even thought about posting some really personal information. I wouldn't have attempted to find out how to get my site the first on a search of jarryd. It's fun to try and get some internet coverage. I suppose it's like if you are an actor or similar and you want the world to recognise you. I want the internet to know that I am jarryd. I AM JARRYD, HEAR ME ROAR.
Continuing: Along with Blogger, Google is trying to compete with Hotmail and Yahoo! with their own webmail, GMail. Go Google! I have access to this beta webmail (along with 3/4 of the internet), and christ, it rules. I get invites (which has increased to 5 invites) every few days, and I'm running out of people to give invites to. So if you are one of the lucky people without an account at GMail, and would like one plug an email to exxnet@gmail.com asking for an invite. Though I'm not one to give an invite away willy nilly (heh, sounds like another sexual innuendo that childish people would laugh at), so include a reason for why I should send you invite.
Now I know that Google isn't directly the internet (I'm speaking metaphorically here people), but it sure as hell would probably be able to take over and become the internet. The world would be able to chug along with Google running the internet just as easy, if not better. That is probably going a little too far, but whatever (it is my site...) I may sound a little attached to Google, but when you think about it, you would be lost without Google. I use it all the time, doing assignments, or even searching for anything.
I think this should be the first and last time I shamlessly plug an internet company, but who knows, I may want to give my acknowledgements to Microsoft (:-P) next time. Do you think I've rambled on a little bit? Eh, I have nothing to talk about. It is the holidays, and I have nothing to do so I will probably ramble on about internet porn scams next. Though I am due for a long blog, I haven't done one for a while. Hopefully some kind of street-fight-car-crash-killings will go on.
Oh My Google.
Without Google, I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered starting a site, nor would I have even thought about posting some really personal information. I wouldn't have attempted to find out how to get my site the first on a search of jarryd. It's fun to try and get some internet coverage. I suppose it's like if you are an actor or similar and you want the world to recognise you. I want the internet to know that I am jarryd. I AM JARRYD, HEAR ME ROAR.
Continuing: Along with Blogger, Google is trying to compete with Hotmail and Yahoo! with their own webmail, GMail. Go Google! I have access to this beta webmail (along with 3/4 of the internet), and christ, it rules. I get invites (which has increased to 5 invites) every few days, and I'm running out of people to give invites to. So if you are one of the lucky people without an account at GMail, and would like one plug an email to exxnet@gmail.com asking for an invite. Though I'm not one to give an invite away willy nilly (heh, sounds like another sexual innuendo that childish people would laugh at), so include a reason for why I should send you invite.
Now I know that Google isn't directly the internet (I'm speaking metaphorically here people), but it sure as hell would probably be able to take over and become the internet. The world would be able to chug along with Google running the internet just as easy, if not better. That is probably going a little too far, but whatever (it is my site...) I may sound a little attached to Google, but when you think about it, you would be lost without Google. I use it all the time, doing assignments, or even searching for anything.
I think this should be the first and last time I shamlessly plug an internet company, but who knows, I may want to give my acknowledgements to Microsoft (:-P) next time. Do you think I've rambled on a little bit? Eh, I have nothing to talk about. It is the holidays, and I have nothing to do so I will probably ramble on about internet porn scams next. Though I am due for a long blog, I haven't done one for a while. Hopefully some kind of street-fight-car-crash-killings will go on.
Oh My Google.
posted by jarryd at
6/20/2004 04:58:00 PM
I couldn't agree more. What do people say if you're bored?
5:34 PMA: "I'm bored."
B: "Download the Internet"
With Google's caching, they've done just that (for the most part) -- of course it would be near impossible to store ALL the information of the Internet on the one network, considering warez :P But Google has every page on the Internet (or the most important ones). I don't know where I ever was without Google, and they have changed the Internet for good.
They've changed the internet alright, unlike other things (spam), they've changed it for the better.
5:50 PMjarryd....im just reinstating the fact that i believe that one day, you will find a way, and have a very happy marriage with Google. see you at the reception!
2:57 PM*~*Taz*~*
MWA
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