The implications of "googling"
September 30, 2010 in News Roundup, Uncategorized
According to the statistics site Worldometers, nearly 2 billion Google searches are made each day. That’s about the same amount that there are internet users in the world.
Google has exclusively claimed the meaning of the phrase “to search on the internet”. Who needs to be good at searching for information anymore when you can simply “google it”?
We put this question to Helen Blanchett – a trainer in web skills specialising in how to effectively find and evaluate information on the web. She has worked closely with search engines since the early days – long before Google existed.
Last Monday, Google celebrated its 12th birthday. The search giant’s journey from a garage in Silicon Valley to a huge global success is without doubt an inspirational subject for a feature article, but we looked at what the internet was like before Larry and Sergey registered Google.com in 1997.
Google’s “suggest” function has led to the search giant being found guilty of defamation in France.
An American phone company is bringing out a special limited edition of Star Wars themed Motorola DROID (2) smartphones.
