The power of G

For some time it’s been hard not to notice Google’s ever-broadening influence on my life. Like many people, I use Google apps for maps, mail, spreadsheets, searching and more. If I have questions, Google almost always has the answer.

As I gathered with family over the holidays, Google was used more than once to settle a squabble over some bit of trivia.

We shared some great laughs too. Some of the loudest were over video we’d sent each other from YouTube, Google’s $1.6 billion destination of choice for those with borrowed time on their hands.

In 2007, Google has plans for a bunch more solutions to problems I won’t know I have until it solves them.

Yet just as I feel ready to acquiesce, to fully embrace this Age of Goobiquity, some are also predicting that SweetG may be flirting with the dark side…