Mar 5, 2008

Google up my life!

Just a few days ago while I was cleaning up my bookmarks and reorganizing them a little bit and I realized something that kinda scared me.
I use GMail for my private email and my company email (Google Apps). The same is true for Google Calendar. My life heavily relies on those 2 apps right now. I'm subscribed to a lot of feeds on my Google Reader account, which I check pretty much every day. Whenever I want to find a place or get driving directions I use Google Maps. As you may have noticed I have Google AdSense ads on my blog (hosted on Google's Blogger), which, by the way uses Google Analytics to track traffic. I also use Analytics at my company. When it comes to instant messaging I use only jabber, and so it happens, my Google account supports jabber and even keeps my chat history on my Gmail account for easy search later. Sometimes I like to entertain myself watching videos on YouTube, which is owned by Google. I host one of my project on Google Code. I often use Google Images. I use Google's calculator feature to convert between units and currencies. I'm subscribed to some Google Groups. We use Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets for some internal (not all, though) documents at my company. Google always sends me an SMS to remind me of the more important events in my Google Calendar. And I do use GMail, Google Reader and Google Calendar on my cell phone.

That makes a lot of Google. It feels like if Google was to suddenly disappear, my life would go with it! On the other hand it makes me respect Google even more. I didn't choose all those apps and services because they are Google's, but because I find them useful, reliable and fairly easy to use. And they all integrate well. Their support for mobile devices is a great advantage for me. The conclusion is: g00gl3 0wnz m3!!!

Oh, I forgot. Guess where do I go for all my web searches?