Google is my Brain
Thank you Google for being my backup brain. You’re always there, always remembering. I go to Google for answers to just about everything, including to finding out about me. I often live in the “here and now” and I tend to forget what I’ve accomplished. I’m really focused on the next thing. I need a search engine in my brain.
Over the many years I’ve been online I’ve built up a decent list of Google traffic. As I looked through some today I caught people and things that I didn’t even know about me. Or I’d just forgotten. I can’t possibly keep up with myself. Searching Google reminds me of how far I’ve come. Instant confidence boost.
When I first started as an internet marketer, I hated to admit I didn’t know something. One year I attended Adtech and heard a VP at Whirlpool say he couldn’t possibly keep up. That was a huge relief to hear. So it was a gradual realization that the game really isn’t about keeping up, it’s enjoying the ride. And that part is easy.
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4 Responses to “Google is my Brain”
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April 26th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
I often times think that i rely too much on google!
April 27th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Not only is google a search engine for my brain, but now with google docs google is the note pad for my brain. I have tons of google posted notes that I write and then archive. When I need to recall my thoughts I do a google docs search and there you go. I’m serious when I say I want to name my first born Google Dotcom Wilson (if it’s a boy we can call him Goog, and a girl we will call her Dotty, I think I am going to blog about this!).
Thanks for the great article Janet. ~Paul
May 31st, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I have to admit as Internet marketer, I use google for traffic analyze. Although I don’t use google analytic, but I can see how many google index my website and what link from other website. it give.
Google webmaster tools also give a lot of information.
However, I don’t want to depend on google. I still use other tools to help me grow my business.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
[...] In the era of Google Is My Brain, technology does our remembering for us. (This was true, though somewhat less so, with printed books and widespread literacy in the past century or two.) No one is impressed by a good memory, because it’s essentially a useless skill. In fact our culture seems to favor those who have poor memories but are smart in a more modern modern way - e.g. the absent-minded professor. [...]