Last week Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo for a phenomenal amount of $US 44.6 billion. Why is there such a fuss about buying search engines? It all boils down to one thing - Man is a curious being. Searching and finding is one of the most satisfying endeavour of every person. Some thirty years ago the internet was invented and the Word Wide Web offered anyone, anywhere to place any document on the web. Soon it grew and got cluttered and looked like my office. You know the feeling, when you want to find something, you know it is there but you just can’t locate it. So the internet search engines such as Excite, Lycos, Hotbot, Alta Vista, Ask and others were invented.
Simply put a search engine is an internet tool that helps us to find documents (information) on almost anything on the internet. The service is free, easy to use and you don’t have to worry about collecting, collating, storing, indexing and cataloguing this huge, amorphous cloud of global information. So which search engine should I use? For quite sometime my favourite was Alta Vista but I have become a “Googlelite” because Google is the biggest and the most popular search engine. You are asking me, how big Google is? Well, Google has over 28 billion indexed web pages and 1.3 billion images. It has over 300 million searches per day! Today the verb “to Google” is officially accepted to mean to “search on Google”. That is why Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! (the seconds biggest) to compete with the dominant player Google in order to gain the advertising market share worth hundreds of millions.
I have many Christian friends who use Google and other search engines but waste a lot of time because they can’t find exactly what they want quickly. Well there are 100 different ways to find your lost coin. But if you are smart you will use your torch or a metal detector. It is not in what you say, but how you say it. For some smart search ideas click here.
Simply put a search engine is an internet tool that helps us to find documents (information) on almost anything on the internet. The service is free, easy to use and you don’t have to worry about collecting, collating, storing, indexing and cataloguing this huge, amorphous cloud of global information. So which search engine should I use? For quite sometime my favourite was Alta Vista but I have become a “Googlelite” because Google is the biggest and the most popular search engine. You are asking me, how big Google is? Well, Google has over 28 billion indexed web pages and 1.3 billion images. It has over 300 million searches per day! Today the verb “to Google” is officially accepted to mean to “search on Google”. That is why Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! (the seconds biggest) to compete with the dominant player Google in order to gain the advertising market share worth hundreds of millions.
I have many Christian friends who use Google and other search engines but waste a lot of time because they can’t find exactly what they want quickly. Well there are 100 different ways to find your lost coin. But if you are smart you will use your torch or a metal detector. It is not in what you say, but how you say it. For some smart search ideas click here.
Wouldn’t be nice to have Christian Search engines showing only the Christian resources? If you are smart you can find all this in Google. But I did find some Christian Search engines for you. See the links on the right under “Links books and Articles”.
Did you know that God was the first person to do a "search" ? He did this search verbally in Genesis 3:9 – But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He is still searching for the lost coin, the lost sheep and you! My guess is, what God did verbally, you will soon be able to do with Google! Speak and you will find!
What do you think of search engines? How do you use them? Share some of your search ideas in response to this post by clicking on the comment link below.
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