The old and unloved blog of Chris Keene, Brighton, UK.

Google my master

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Time to take stock on how much I rely on my google drip of goodness and tools. What happens if they take it away from me. Cold turkey like. I would die dear reader. die.

Any way, So for work I use Google Scholar, and I’ve set ‘Google University search as our University departmental website search engine. Then there’s my gmail account (which I can not mention without slipping in that I was one of the first to get one, and was invited by Google themselves, yes, I’m on first names terms with Larry and Sergey… um sort of) and my ‘google groups’ account for newsgroups.

I read the news with Google news, and have various news alerts coming to me each week (which are real useful). I’ve installed Google Desktop, and Firefox of course uses Google search by default.

I love Google maps, so much quicker than multimap.com. I contantly use the various tools and extras and often check google labs. I’ve signed up for Google adsense (adverts on my website), and almost made a whole dollar. And lets not forget my old blogger.com account plus Picasa and Google Earth software.

Now there’s Google Reader, a Feedster alike RSS reader. It can import RSS subscription list from other sources. What would have the best list to import? Of couse that would be Google Desktop at work, which displays emails, news feeds and loads of other stuff down the side of my desktop. It adds RSS fields to it’s list of news sources as I browse. So I’m importing from one Google app to another.

They have my email, files, RSS feeds, newgroups I read and know who clicks on my adverts, If Google ever turn evil then I’m fucked.

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