Picture: Google's new image search interface.
However, along the same lines of looking up images, one thing that intrigued me the most includes the Google search engine's ability to determine how many people search for one thing in particular. On January 8th, 2009 during the BCS National Championship football game between the Florida Gators and Oklahoma, the sole act of one quarterback, wearing one specific scripture verse, led to the national "googling" of John 16:3 more than 90 million times in one night alone.
"Tim Tebow’s passing yardage — the Christian quarterback threw 316 yards — sent commentators over the edge. The Associated Press reported that he also averaged 31.6 yards per completion. The religious connotations to John 3:16, a famous Bible verse, were too much for many to chalk up to chance.....The Bible verse quickly became the most searched Google term Monday. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tim-tebow-and-his-faith/2011/11/29/gIQA6GMIHO_gallery.html#photo=36
Picture: Tim Tebow after the BCS National Championship game seen with the ever popular scripture verse John 3:16 painted on his eye black.
American technology today has lead humans to have the profound ability to look up anything and everything they have ever questioned or wanted to know, receiving the answer in milliseconds by the efforts of the Google search engine alone. Google's incredible ability to determine the amount of "hits" each site or topic is looked up goes without saying beyond belief. However, after starting off the hit novel Google in the Plex some people indeed should be wary or take into respect Google's search tracking abilities these days. Everything and anything one looks up, posts, or tweets about, may very well come back to haunt them someday as the record is never lost.
I think you're right on about how Google is remarkable in their way of finding out exactly what people find so interesting on the web. When you mention that people should be "wary" of Google's tracking abilities, I find myself being conflicted about whether this is indeed something to worry about, or whether it's just me being paranoid. I guess there's a part of me who wants to keep my individualism and not think about whether Google knows everything about my life.
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