The world according to Google…
Read an article last week about Google and I began to think, “Wow,” so much of what we do on the web is guided by what Google tells us–or doesn’t tell us. How much of what we do and see is driven by what we find doing a Google search? That’s scary! In education we talk so much about digital literacy and how important it is for us to teach it to our students, but every day, I do Google searches and don’t think much about what’s being presented to me. I filter out sites that I don’t think are good or appropriate, and I often refine my searches, but I’m sure there are sites that don’t even show up because of Google’s algorithms. When you think about it, they have an a lot of say in what you see and don’t see. It concerns me that they are branching out their services more and more each day and it scares me to think how dependent we’ve become. What would life on the Internet be without Google. I think it would be quite strange these days. I wouldn’t have Gmail, wouldn’t have Google Docs, wouldn’t be able to search with Google, and who knows what else. Who knows what else? Well, I better do a search (a Google search) to see all the other things that Google does that I would be missing out on.
dean