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I like Technorati. Whenever I look at Technorati, I see the dominance of technology related blogs. The Technorati top 100 consists of blogs which are favorited by Technorati members and the ones receiving the most links from around blogosphere. So these two criteria defines how you can be in the Technorati top 100.

For the majority, having a blog and linking to other blogs from that blog is not part of the everyday life. Many people keeping a blog are people that are not technologically challenged. Most of this not technologically challenged people are very much interested in the web and other technologies.

So, naturally they dominate the blogosphere. They dominate the most important notion of the web: linking.

If you blog about electronic gadgets, the probability you will be linked from other blogs is much higher in comparison to the case that you blog about flowers or decoration or art or real estate.

There is no immediate solution or correction to this. This is a matter of literacy and illiteracy. The more people get used to use the web and blogs efficiently the more we will have an equally distributed and highlighted content about everything.

On the other hand, let me finish this post with another detail in favor of none-technology topics. They are rare. All of them are still a niche. Any none-technology subject is still an area that you can built a web-content providing business and thus you can have advertising profit easier than a technology related blog.

I would strongly suggest to have a blog about a topic which is out of the area of technology. This would really make money.

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.

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.