Internet Search Inquiries

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." ~ Albert Einstein

Internet Search Inquiries: Why do we rely more and more on Internet search inquiries to answer all of the questions in our daily lives? Will they soon be telling us whom to marry and how many children to have? Has anyone noticed that "Google" has slipped into the lexicon and has become not only a verb but also a panacea for all research? Whatever happened to Barney Google with his goo-goo-googly eyes? He seems gone forever, but his surname has reached new and different heights of fame. Read on, whether you are into Internet search inquiries and have noticed or not.

As a writer who maintains seven web sites, I have come to regard Internet search inquiries, particularly at Google and Ask Jeeves, as my research right and left arms respectively. In the past, it was the public library, and while I still use those facilities too, the convenience of sitting with a cup of coffee in my pajamas, plugging in a keyword for Internet search inquiries and discovering a wealth of relevant material is just too easy to resist. Being a bit lazy makes the package of Internet search inquiries more attractive as well. According to David Hochman of The New York Times "it's more like the new kabbalah. With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google?has a near religious quality in the minds of many users."