Google seems to be everywhere. Unfortunately and unlike Microsoft, I like most of their products and ideas.
First of all, Google owns www.blogger.com, the system this blog in written on. Google now has an own text-processing software (Writeley, http://docs.google.com/ ) and spread-sheet calculation. When you register your Google account, access to the beta of the two products is free.
The idea behind this is to persuade people to use an online office application, store their texts and documents online and invite others for cooperation.
The question is: How secure is the online office ?
Once registered, you can add elements to your google starting page in a fly. The ease of this process is amazing. I have local weather information, satellite image, Nasa Picture of the Day, news headlines and wikipedia search engine.
If you don't like all the thrash that is delivered by Googles main search engine - why don't you build your own one ? Just tell Google to only search specific homepages. So - building your own search engine is a matter of minutes.
To be honest - sometimes the level of Googles IT-presence frightens me. On the other hand - we all more or less depend on a monopolistic IT company anyway, two is better than one.
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