Living Google Free

The article sums the issue up early on - "Google may have entered this world a simple search engine, but the company has grown and evolved to become the core of our online lives." And Google isn't just an excellent way to find information, it also offers ways to communicate and plan, making it all too easy to link everything together, with Google sitting at the tip of it all.

So why switch? Why switch if you are already perfectly content with the service you are using? Well, familiarity breeds contempt; which goes to say that just because you think you are happy with what you are already using doesn’t mean that is the best there is. In fact, that familiarity is holding you back! Using different search engines, calendars, translators, emails etcetera, we may find that certain services work better than Google! Granted, some may be less satisfactory, and in that case one can easily switch back to Google. (Imagine that!)

In my experimental quest I am happy to try new search engines – if they aid me in my research for papers, so be it! Also, if you think about it, the fear of trying new search engines/calendars closely parallels our anxiety regarding writing style. Why are we so afraid to branch out to say, writing poetry? Or expanding short stories? As difficult as it may be at first, it may aid our writing to grow in all other areas. So yes, I will be trying new search engines. And who knows, maybe I’ll take a whack at poetry too!