Has Google become too powerful and all knowing? Jeff Jarvis, the famous blogger and Guardian columnist, has brought out a book called 'What Would Google Do?' and says that one reader of his book predicts that we are witnessing the emergence of a new post Capitalist system: Googleism.
See :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/09/google-future-models
However, others are starting to get a bit jittery about the power Google has over our lives. Charlene Li, author of the best-selling 'Groundswell', one of the key books on the emergence of social media, has written about how Google recently failed:
http://blog.altimetergroup.com/2009/02/googles-malware-goof---a-personal-experience-and-perspective.html
For a bit of a laugh I asked one of my friends if he thought Google was God. He thought for a minute, doubtless thinking about its influence, and then said: 'No, it doesn't answer my prayers.' Mind you, I bet there is some kind of online prayer service out there.
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