There has been for a long time now a growing controversy wether which big technological company is the worse, which is the "big demon". Some say it is Microsoft, others that it is Apple and the last ones that it is Google.
I don't think that any of these companies is to be blame of all the disasters of the world (as it seems listening to some people) but I do have preference for Google.
Why? Mainly because it has given us the best searcher of the web (www.google.com), the best e-mail (www.gmail.com), the best web based navigation (maps.google.com) and many other great services. Google Docs (docs.google.com) or Google Reader (reader.google.com) are other great services from Google.
They have plenty of information about my work, my tastes, my hobbies, even some secrets (Do you always sign out from your Google account when you surf?) but it is information that I wanted, or accepted, to give them. They haven't placed a virus in my computer, I have allowed Google to have this info. You can argue that most people are not aware of all the information that Google has of them, but it is not the company's fault, but their own, for not caring enough of their privacy.
It is all a question of trust. There is many other places and professionals who have secrets that you don't want to become public (banks, doctors, etc.) so it is not like Google is the first company to have our secrets.
While Microsoft create products in order to satisfy everybody's desires (and sometimes fail -Vista-), and Apple creates products to satisfy their own desire, Google has produced some of the most helpful and efficient tools of the internet to make our life easier.
I don't think that any of these companies is to be blame of all the disasters of the world (as it seems listening to some people) but I do have preference for Google.
Why? Mainly because it has given us the best searcher of the web (www.google.com), the best e-mail (www.gmail.com), the best web based navigation (maps.google.com) and many other great services. Google Docs (docs.google.com) or Google Reader (reader.google.com) are other great services from Google.
They have plenty of information about my work, my tastes, my hobbies, even some secrets (Do you always sign out from your Google account when you surf?) but it is information that I wanted, or accepted, to give them. They haven't placed a virus in my computer, I have allowed Google to have this info. You can argue that most people are not aware of all the information that Google has of them, but it is not the company's fault, but their own, for not caring enough of their privacy.
It is all a question of trust. There is many other places and professionals who have secrets that you don't want to become public (banks, doctors, etc.) so it is not like Google is the first company to have our secrets.
While Microsoft create products in order to satisfy everybody's desires (and sometimes fail -Vista-), and Apple creates products to satisfy their own desire, Google has produced some of the most helpful and efficient tools of the internet to make our life easier.
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