Just Google It (Part 2)

In Part 1 "JUST GOOGLE IT," I spoke about Google, the powerful search engine, and that was slowly taking over the world...starting with YouTube. Now you may be wondering how a search engine can take over the world. There are copyrights tagged onto everything created but somehow Google is working around all of those. Meet iGoogle the newest website created by the one and only search engine Google. "What is iGoogle?" you may ask. This is a new site that offers you a chance to create a personalized iGoogle page. This page gives you access to important Google news as well as news from all over the web. On this page you can view and keep track of your Google mail, headlines from the Google searches and other top news reports. You can also view stocks, the weather and show times for movies. But, that is not it! You can also view and organize the bookmarked websites you have added to your favorites from any computer. And last, but certainly not least, you have your own section with all the content you find from the web.This site was created way back in May 2005, but after being renamed and expanded in April 2007, iGoogle has become a big name site located not only in the United States but also in Australia, India, Canada, the U.K., Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland.Let's get serious...what is the real point of it?? Does the internet allow you to do all of this anyway? Yes. Does this provide a brand new searching process? No. Is it really necessary? In my opinion no it is not. All this is going is combining the "i" from Apple with Google and creating a facade to those who use it. Take one second a think about what the site really does. You can see bookmarks, there’s a drop down menu on your screen allowing you to do the same thing. You can read your mail? You do that regardless of what site you are using and you can check movie times? Moviefone.com allows you to do the exact same thing. So what is the real purpose of iGoogle.com? To allow Google to receive more money and that is the bottom line.