Googling

Google : Its my helpline.

Now, when i had first heard of this word, i was highly curious to know of its history and origin. So, I again turned to Google (yeah, right) for some help. So what i got to know was that it is a mis-spelling of the word googol which refers to the value 10<sup>100.

Now, this in itself is not a very interesting piece of information. :). But what i want to stress on is that the way Google has impacted our lives. (It has impacted mine atleast). So today whenever i have any doubts, i want to know about anything, or want to search for absolutely anything, Google is where i head to. Now, when i do not know anything, then without the embarrassment of asking anyone about it, u can find the answer. So, going with all this background, let me get to the main point here.

Last week, my company blocked some of the sites which they considered malicious and not confirming to certain standards. Among the blocked sites were crowd favorites, orkut and all the web - based emails (Including gmail, et al.). This caused a lot of inconvenience to many people. And the Information Security group were at the receiving end of lots of curses. So, all this led me to think about the day when maybe Google will be blocked. This thought scared me to my wits end. But then i reasoned that every software developer works only on help from Google. Blocking Google itself will in turn absolutely screw up the company's project schedules and deliveries. So, in ratiocination, i decided that this unthinkable may never happen.

But who knows, this is a strange world and worse things have happened.</sup>