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There is this website, The Googlization of everything. This is assumed to be a future book.

We are all accustomed to Microsoft bashing. However, this is different.

Back in 90’s there was a great book on MacDonald’s and the world. The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer. It was a sociology book, a sociological study.

According to Wikipedia:

Ritzer suggests that in the later part of the 20th century the socially structured form of the fast-food restaurant has become the organizational force representing and extending the process of rationalization further into the realm of everyday interaction and individual identity. McDonald’s serves as the case model of this process in the 1990s. The book introduced the term McDonaldization into learned discourse to describe mind-numbing sameness.

Well, the googlization of everything is not the same. Although it is similar in name with Microsoft bashers and the famous book “the mcdonaldization of society”, it is not the same.

I think this is not the right time to suggest that Google is the new evil force on earth. Because they are not.

I agree that Google is not perfect, but who is perfect anyway? It is not really true that Google is heading towards a monopoly. It doesn’t do anything to prevent Yahoo or Microsoft or Altavista or any other search engine from operating. Google even does not promote it’s very competent services efficiently.

In a time where Microsoft still exists and does everything to manipulate the world of software and entertainment, Google does not deserve a criticism with a title like “the googlization of everything”. There is nothing being googlized. I wish there was because Google is introducing very productive resources to the whole world. Google is very open to competition.

I am not here to defend Google in any and every aspect it needs a defense. I am not an advpcate of Google, I am not a fan boy of anything particular.

Google is very dominant in search just because it does what it supposed to be. I am a live witness that Google is not perfect in search but hey, it does it’s job pretty well and its opponents should find a different way to compete with it.

Just a couple of minutes ago, I wanted to blog about the Sensitive Floor. Then I realized that the site is a full flash site and I can’t copy any of the text.

So, in fact the problem is not that the site is in full flash. The problem is that they made the text not selectable. This is understandable if you are presenting text which consists of sensitive information and you want to make it harder to copy and paste but this is not the case with this website.

I am sure they would be very happy to blogged about. Anyway, moral of the story is that you should be very careful when presenting text in a full flash site if you want media attention.

The censor put by a court in Turkey months ago is still continuing. There are new bans each week, and it never ends.

I use opendns 99% of the time and therefore i am not always aware of the censorship in Turkey (this is not valid for youtube because turkish telecom prevented entering into youtube by bypassing their dns service).

When I am at a friends home, or in an internet cafe, then I realize how many sites are censored by courts. This is insane because this means courts punish us, the citizens because of something done by a person they simply don’t know or reach.

This is the truth right now in Turkey.