Google is the best!
I’m in a transition phase right now. Imagine living with someone for the last 7 years. All of your stuff is at their house. You are so embedded in a common law marriage that, at this point, a change almost doesn’t make sense. Well, what’s the attraction? Why change now when everything I have is in one place. I have many reasons to that answer that I would like to share now.
Yahoo… you’ve been so good to me.
Yahoo has served me well over the last 7 years. Primarily, I used Yahoo for email purposes. I enjoyed opening my browser and my email link was right there with all of the current news. I then got into Yahoo Messenger. I used this religiously and convinced many friends it was the way to go. Then, I got into Fantasy Football through Yahoo. Once Yahoo Calendars and notes was available, I would utilize them to the fullest. The point I’m trying to make is I WAS deeply in love with my Yahoo. With 15,000+ emails in my Yahoo mail account, how could I in my right mind decide to switch.
Google, how clean and intelligent you are.
I’ve been a website/graphic designer for that same span of time, 7 years. I have always been drawn to clean and simplistic design and style. Each time I visit Google I realize that their design is so simple and clean from all of the nice white space to the elegant and easy to read typographical choices.
Google, you can find me and all of my websites.
One thing us web designers are concerned with is search engine optimization. I have spent my lifetime as a designer trying to figure out how to get indexed in major search engines. Since I was loyal to Yahoo, I assumed many others were loyal to her as well and I tried and tried to get my websites indexed in Yahoo Directories and search listings. I never sprang for the $299.00 directory listing though.
Sadly, early on, the only reason I would go to Google was to see if my websites were indexed by her. She was the girl that you always hoped would recognize you or at least smile when you walked by her. Eye contact please Google.
Once I began creating blog style websites using Wordpress, Google started to take notice. Google is very interested in the social networking aspect of the web. If you’ll notice, many prominent Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. have an extremely high PageRank.
Google’s interest in me and my websites were taking away my interest in Yahoo.
Google, you are so smart and keep getting smarter.
If I had the opportunity to visit Google and tour their space, I would surely collapse and die. I have always been fascinated by progressive learning and experimentation. Google has taken everything we use that is web related and enhanced it to the point that it would be silly to not use it. Google Maps are amazing! Can you believe they drive around EVERYWHERE and take photos of EVERYTHING?
I am a huge fan of Google Docs. There versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint are close enough for me that I have begun using them. I no longer email myself Word Documents when I need to finish up a blog post elsewhere.
Google Calenders are a breeze to use. With one click you have an event window open ready to take your info. I think it might actually be easier than Microsoft Outlook. One click is better than two, right?
Google Everything Google.
I am now becoming embedded in Google. Part of my job is to stay up on trends and technology and Google is as advanced as any company when it comes to that. Google also makes their API’s publicly available to let the community take part. I also use Google Adsense and Adwords. How nice of Google to share part of the pie with us.
Google, I am yours. Show me more.