Conner

I really am fascinated by Google. I love how they run their business. I think that they are extremely creative and have a very good attitude when it comes to other people being creative. The fact that they provide so many things for free is crazy to me. Google Documents (now called Google Drive) is mindblowing. I can’t tell you what Microsoft Office costs, but if it cost $50 that is $50 more than what Google thinks you should pay for that kind of software. It is a bit sketchy to me that Google has done this for free because the interface they have created for their spreadsheet as well as documents or presentations is extremely similar to Microsoft’s. Either way I think it is brilliant. I recently started using Google Documents for all of my class notes and papers instead of Word. As long as I have internet access I can get to whatever I have created in my account. I don’t need to worry about saving my paper every five minutes with the fear that my computer is going to crash because Google saves it every 2 seconds or so. If my house caught on fire and my computer was in it, I would still have everything saved on “the cloud” or better yet “the drive.” Google is such an innovator in this sense. They are constantly shaping how people use the internet and technology, and honestly I think they are the best company that does this. The cool thing is, I have never directly paid one penny to Google for anything. Okay, I guess my cellphone because they created the operating system on it but I would have had to pay someone else anyway. I mean, the idea that I actually have my own phone number through Google is crazy. If I don’t have my phone, I can hop onto the internet and call someone FOR FREE. And if I want to call someone in Canada without paying international rates, I can do that. These guys even send out cars to take pictures of anything visible from a street in the country. The entire country. It is unbelievable. The things they are doing with Google Maps is also crazy. I was unaware of this KML stuff before today and the fact that they are cataloging geographic information like this is great. I honestly have too much faith in them as a company. I have too much trust. But as of right now, I have no reason not to. They have made my life easier in so many ways and taken nothing from me in the process. They may not run the world but in a way they run my world.