Google to control your world

One can start to get worried when we think about how much control we let Google have. I mean – I am pro-google, and I love what the do, though when things like todays errors happens, one starts to wonder what would happen if Google turned into a monster? As it is today, we let Google control our mail, we have our websites there, they basically control what we find on the internet, they have great shares in the advertising business and even started to deliver us desktop applications. Now, todays error that is displayed in the screenshot above, was caused by a human-error – and the what actually went wrong is described here;

1. Googles official blog
2. Stopbadware.org
3. Dagbladet.no (norwegian)

Now, this error today was rather small – in terms that it didn’t cause errors that caused major problems. But now that we allow Google to control so much of our day-to-day online activities, what happens the day the Google network really do end up doing something very bad. For instance, viruses spread amongst the attachments of emails on their server, someone hacking into their networks obtaining information about your company, your adsense configuration, your logins – the list can grow quite long. Though, even with this in mind, we would probably not stop using the Google services; they are simply too well made, and working without hussle – but the thought is always there.

A great article on this topic is; “Has Google created a monster?” by Jason Lee Miller.