GOOGLE THE GREAT

Google has turned 13 today and is celebrating birthday worldwide. Google is now a teenager. The most attractive, popular and most sought after teenager in the world. This teenager is liked by all the people in the world irrespective of sex, age, religion, region, country, education, profession, personal likes and dislikes. In the olden days (about 25 years ago) when we wanted to know about anything we used to refer to “encyclopedia” which was an information bank. Over the last 13 years people across the globe irrespective of age, education and background have resorted to “Google search” to find any information that they want.

I bought a pumpkin from the Vegetable store couple of years ago and when I cut it to make sambar I realized that there was too much available and what I needed for the sambar was only 1/6th of the entire Pumpkin. I kept the balance in the Refrigerator. Everyday when I set out for cooking dinner this remaining portion of pumpkin used to stare at me. On the third day which happened to be a Thursday, I decided to make use of the Pumpkin in my cooking. I told the visitor to my home that night Sundar to look through “Google” for pumpkin halwa recipe. Within the next one hour we were on the dining table having the delicious “Pumpkin Halwa”.

I was surfing the net today morning and by chance landed up on the blog of a company which had done some contracting work in Karaikal Port when I was working for Marg Limited. There were some pictures in the blog and I was shocked to see one picture which featured me on board the Dredger in Karaikal Port. I got excited and sent the picture to a friend of mine who used to be a Captain of a Ship. He wrote back “nice picture.. seems to have been taken on the bridge of the vessel”. I immediately went to Google and typed the words “bridge of the vessel” and in 0.14 seconds it gave 25.9 million results. I could clearly understand the meaning of the phrase in less than one minute.

In the olden days (about 30 years ago) we were made to by heart the lessons. We used to get up early in the morning around 4 a.m. to read the lessons so that it will remain in the memory for a long time. The present day children need not have to go through this difficulty. There is no need to remember anything hard and strain your brain. Any time any information needed can be accessed through “Google search”. In today’s world neither intelligence nor memory power is required. You can handle any situation and get clarification on any question by doing “Google search”.

The speed and variety of information that you can get on a “Google search” is truly amazing, excellent and fulfilling. Long live “Google”. I wish you a very very happy birthday and wish you many more happy returns of the day.

-T.P.Anand, Dubai, U.A.E.
27th September 2011