Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Google?

Internet giant, Google, just does not seem to stop evolving. Ever growing, and ever vigilant, just how efficient this internet ecosystem can get continues to surprise, and even has an uncertain few shivering at the thought of where it is all going. However, perception is almost everything and at the moment is this really something to percieve as a threat?

To David Carr it might be. Going so far with Carr as to read him write,

Not long ago, someone invited me out to the Googleplex, the nickname for Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.The fact is, I already live there. And it’s starting to worry me.

Well if David really lives there then surely he could not be afraid of any headquarters that looks as unintimidating as this one.

Evil empire...NOT.

It seems fancy features, such as Gmail’s new video chat, and its creepy icon have Carr questioning whether this corporation is headed for complete control of us. But aren’t there more corrupt companies Carr could correspond on? Like Halliburton, Blackwater, or Wal-Mart, where people are literally dying over their sales, or they are at least outsourcing Americans out of jobs. That sounds certainly more malignant than mere internet enterprise. Then again, Carr is also the kind of guy changing moods fairly often, so it’s no wonder he is complaining about Google one minute and utilizing it the next. He writes,

It’s easy to update my status under my chat icon while I’m on Gmail, so I tend to update that mood ring with more frequency than my Facebook status. When Google acquired YouTube, it gained another chunk of my mindshare.

The fact he is on Facebook is unnerving enough, nontheless to think his mind runs off the random videos floating around Youtube.

Given though, when Carr quotes Google’s chief executive the guy does come off completely creepy with this response to Carr who has basically claimed to him to be owned and operated by Google.

“I’m glad to hear it,” said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, who was in New York last week. “We want a little bit of Google in many parts of your life.”

A little bit of Google in many parts of my life? Almost expect to see this guy watching through your window tonight with talk like that.

The point pretty much is Google, with its search engine results based on revenues from advertisers, is not going to take over anyone’s life more than television already has. In fact right now it has available way more information than one would ever hear on their nightly news. On top of that, at least this powerhouse of https is American made as well, and we are all not forced to learn Chinese, Carr should lay off for now at least. What is the worst that could happen? I mean it’s not Skynet. Yet!