the company that changed the world

i don't have any doubts that google is one of the most influential companies in modern history. that they have conquered the internet search market, we all know. i don't know how many times last year i met people who asked me, thrilled, if i had ever used google earth before. i can see my backyard on that thing, they would say. just a couple of weeks ago i discovered google video and it's just insane as a means of entertainment. you see all these random videos that you can choose from or you can search for something of your own interest.

i like looking at the random videos because you come across some really funny stuff. for instance, i saw this 17-minute long video of different girls' fights. it was crazy! i wanted to show it to some people afterwards and i just typed "bitch fight" and it was the first one i found, if you'd like to see it. then i saw this ridiculous black dude singing whitney houston's "i will love you"in front of his computer and that was pathetic. it was very much like the dragostea fat kid or the chinese guys that sing backstreet boys songs (i wrote about these about a month ago), only 1000 times worse. the worst is that apparently he's made a lot of these videos because later i came across of other songs sung by him. anyway, then i found this jihad dancer... some guy dancing in his kitchen and then still dancing while taking a dump. oh, and throughout the whole 3 minutes he has his head covered. weird.

then i looked for roger federer and came across a video of him practicing very casually and some very informal videos of him with family, etc. that was awesome. i searched "elisha cuthbert" waiting to see some footage from the girl next door, and hopefully more, and i found an interesting interview in one of these night talk shows -- not conan o'brian, not jay leno... the other guy that's famous.

a very funny video i found was this harry potter one:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5765907587794135290&q=harry+potter

these kids basically change the voices and the dialogs in a scene of harry potter 3 and it's really funny.

but the most amazing thing i discovered today was google book search. i was studying for my public finance exam and i wanted to know more about the so-called inframarginality problem. whenever i have a question like this, i always google it up (i love that "to google something up" has even become a verb!) -- i guess like a lot of people out there. anyway, google only had about 10 entries, none of which was very useful. but then after showing all the possible entries, it gave me the option to do a google book search. this thing looks in a huge database of books which are thoroughly scanned!!! it shows you the page or a couple of pages where your searched item appears and then i guess if you want to know more you can buy the book or something...!! i cannot explain what effect this had in me... i was seriously in shock!! the power of information! at my fingertips! isn't it amazing???!

anyway, it's super late now and i need to go to bed to wake up early tomorrow and study. i was going to write about the inframarginality problem, in case you were interested, but then i thought not a lot of people would be. still, i know that at least a couple of the people who read this blog will in fact be interested about it. so just e-mail me or call me and i will tell you.

or even better: booksearchgoogle it!