Technology Through Our Eyes

Simon says that Google is like his helpful shadow in the online world. There is not a day goes by when he doesn't use Google to search for something. Other search engines like Yahoo, Alta Vista and MSN seem to pale into the woodwork when compared with Google.Suzie, on the other hand, thinks that Google has an insatiable unhealthy monopoly on a lot of things. They have their hands in too many pies. Using less popular search engines like Alta Vista and Yahoo is her little way of getting back at Google. Not that google will ever feel the difference, but by doing that, she feels she's doing something. Can you imagine if she convinced 100 people a month not to use Google? Now that would be something. She could use a social network or three to spread the word about her 'No-Google' campaign. Mind you, it would have to be a social network that Google doesn't actually own as they seem to be taking over a lot of sites these days - she thinks they own the social network, MyBlogLog, so that's one not to join during her campaign.She might even set up a domain and a website or blog. There's Blogspot, but guess what, Google owns that too. She could always buy her own domain though, then set up a blog on Wordpress. Doesn't cost that much to buy a domain name and hosting for a year. Hmm, might be an idea. Something to look into.Maybe one day, she and a group of people could even demonstrate offline. Quietly, of course. It could be something as quiet but as powerful as wearing a t-shirt with a slogan on it or leaving leaflets on a seat when they get up or even wearing badges.Basically, it would be great if there was a redistribution, a reroute of some of Google's search engine power to other search engines. Suzie thinks that some of the above might be ways to do it. Her campaign might be successful or it might fall flat on its face, but sometimes it's better to do and fail than to do nothing at all. Doing nothing is the ultimate failure.