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Sid SukhwaniFrancesca CaparasEWRT 2November 22, 2015Wikipedia Article RevisedWikipedia ArticleGoogle: [pic 1]Google is a multinational technology company known for its popular search engine and other internet services. It also includes advertising, search, cloud computing and software. It makes most of its profits from Adworks, an online advertising company that gives advertising relevant to the searches on the search engine. Google’s headquarters is in Mountain View, California which is called the Googleplex. It offers various products other than the search engine like for email Gmail, cloud storage Google Drive, an office suite Google Docs, a social network Google Plus and web browser Google Chrome. The corporation is known to have more than one million servers in data centers around the world. It is estimated that Search engines process about one billion search requests on a daily bases. ( Carr 150-153)History:a. When and How Google was foundedGoogle first started as a research project called the ‘BackRub’ in January 1996 by Larry
Google’s impact on society:a. Google’s impact on economy:Google’s generated about $94 billion of economic activity through their search tools and economic activity. They generated $64 million in Washington D.C. alone from their activity. Their impact includes of Google Search, Ad Works, Ad Sense, and Google grants. (Tsukayama) Google has impacted economy in a major. The vast growing company has everybody’s attention. It started out as a project and it is now part of everyone’s life. Every click on their advertisements generates them $2 dollars so you can only imagine how much is Google by people and how much revenue they are easily able to generate. After Apple, Google is the only company that generates such a large amount of revenue and has such a great impact on the economy. b. Google’s impact on general public: Google’s search engine has made life very easy. According to the article Is Technology Making Us Stupid, Google has changed the way we handle and store information. (Genevieve) We no longer memorize think or have the deep knowledge people used to. Now if someone wants some information, they just go to Google, get the answer and forget about it. When we read books or really put ourselves deep in something that is when we gain actual knowledge. Everyone uses Google from middle school children to students in universities. There was a time when we had landlines and had to memorize everybody’s phone numbers. That number was so deep in our brains that it was hard to forget. When we use Google, the information does not hit our brain so deep. We might remember it for sometimes but does not gain us any knowledge. To people nowadays, Google is so easy to access, it is on everyone’s phone, tab, and computer etc. People do not care about learning anymore, mostly students, they care about getting things done.