In a recent interview with the founders of Google, they gave a little insight into where they are heading with their popular search portal. They forsee a day when someone will go to Google for advice on what job to pick, what type of vacation to take and other more personal decisions as well.
How would Google know such things as to be able to give accurate advice on your future career path? The methods are all ready in the works. If you use gmail or just the Google portal in general, you will have noticed the option to customize your Google page. This is now called iGoogle. There is also a desktop search program called Google Desktop which gives you the option to allow Google to track your internet history and store it for later searches. These two services are already up and running and I am sure we will see more coming our way in the not-s0-distant future.
You can read more on this here.
Some questions:
-How do you feel about one day having a search engine that could, in all reality, influence your future paths?
-Does this make you leary of using Google's offerings? (Just so you know, other search engines- MSN, Yahoo, etc. are looking to do the same thing).
-Do you think this will be a good thing?
-If you didn't have anything to hide, would it bother you to allow Google to "know" you and give you advice?
-What do you think such a service as this will influence our future? Our kids' future?
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