Comments on: Google Guruji http://strat.in/2009/08/google-guruji/ strategy, management and all that follows ... Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:43:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Amit S Holey http://strat.in/2009/08/google-guruji/comment-page-1/#comment-4108 Amit S Holey Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:57:16 +0000 http://strat.in/?p=2212#comment-4108 @ Uma "If parents and others raised eyebrows when the idiot box took over the ability of minds to tax themselves, why does the easy accessibility of info on Google not draw similar reactions (not disputing the fact that it is a formidable repository of information)? " Perhaps, even the parents are so involved in Googling there way around in life, that the realization is yet to dawn on them. Information overload has truly blinded and deafened our minds. It will take sometime for us to awaken from the stupor. I just hope it will not be too late then..... @ Uma

“If parents and others raised eyebrows when the idiot box took over the ability of minds to tax themselves, why does the easy accessibility of info on Google not draw similar reactions (not disputing the fact that it is a formidable repository of information)? ”

Perhaps, even the parents are so involved in Googling there way around in life, that the realization is yet to dawn on them. Information overload has truly blinded and deafened our minds. It will take sometime for us to awaken from the stupor. I just hope it will not be too late then…..

]]> By: Uma http://strat.in/2009/08/google-guruji/comment-page-1/#comment-4057 Uma Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:34:05 +0000 http://strat.in/?p=2212#comment-4057 This was a good read. I do quite agree to the fact that Google has made information so easily accessible that one need not haunt libraries or plague professors for answers. Similarity can be drawn with the phenomenon of television, due to which the habits of reading newspapers as well as that of reading books has been numbed. In fact, even the news is now 'dumbed down' so that the "junta" understands. If parents and others raised eyebrows when the idiot box took over the ability of minds to tax themselves, why does the easy accessibility of info on Google not draw similar reactions (not disputing the fact that it is a formidable repository of information)? This was a good read. I do quite agree to the fact that Google has made information so easily accessible that one need not haunt libraries or plague professors for answers.
Similarity can be drawn with the phenomenon of television, due to which the habits of reading newspapers as well as that of reading books has been numbed. In fact, even the news is now ‘dumbed down’ so that the “junta” understands. If parents and others raised eyebrows when the idiot box took over the ability of minds to tax themselves, why does the easy accessibility of info on Google not draw similar reactions (not disputing the fact that it is a formidable repository of information)?

]]> By: Amit S Holey http://strat.in/2009/08/google-guruji/comment-page-1/#comment-3889 Amit S Holey Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:13:00 +0000 http://strat.in/?p=2212#comment-3889 @ Deepak: The title was so chosen since it was Google that in some ways is the vanguard of the movement. I agree that the Internet as a concept revolutionized the academia, but it is Google that opened the floodgates to it. Even now, the usage of the term Google is more as a verb - to mine data - than as a search engine. We use ' Google for it' more often than' check for it on the Internet' . Hence the title for the article. P.S. - Sorry, forgot to tell you great post! @ Deepak:

The title was so chosen since it was Google that in some ways is the vanguard of the movement. I agree that the Internet as a concept revolutionized the academia, but it is Google that opened the floodgates to it.

Even now, the usage of the term Google is more as a verb – to mine data – than as a search engine. We use ‘ Google for it’ more often than’ check for it on the Internet’ .
Hence the title for the article.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!

]]> By: Amit S Holey http://strat.in/2009/08/google-guruji/comment-page-1/#comment-3878 Amit S Holey Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:17:48 +0000 http://strat.in/?p=2212#comment-3878 @ Deepak: The title was so chosen since it was Google that in some ways is the vanguard of the movement. I agree that the Internet as a concept revolutionized the academia, but it is Google that opened the floodgates to it. Even now, the usage of the term Google is more as a verb - to mine data - than as a search engine. We use ' Google for it' more often than' check for it on the Internet' . Hence the title for the article. @ Deepak:

The title was so chosen since it was Google that in some ways is the vanguard of the movement. I agree that the Internet as a concept revolutionized the academia, but it is Google that opened the floodgates to it.

Even now, the usage of the term Google is more as a verb – to mine data – than as a search engine. We use ‘ Google for it’ more often than’ check for it on the Internet’ .
Hence the title for the article.

]]> By: Deepak http://strat.in/2009/08/google-guruji/comment-page-1/#comment-3877 Deepak Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:54:58 +0000 http://strat.in/?p=2212#comment-3877 I started reading it then got little disoriented. I doubt whether the topic should be centered around Google or around the concept of Internet. Infact at a point, the reference is also made to WIKI. So the title seems little ambiguous to me. At the end, a valid concern is raised about the shallow learning through googling. It is becoming contagious among all of us and the choice also is left to us how to use this information. I started reading it then got little disoriented. I doubt whether the topic should be centered around Google or around the concept of Internet. Infact at a point, the reference is also made to WIKI. So the title seems little ambiguous to me.

At the end, a valid concern is raised about the shallow learning through googling. It is becoming contagious among all of us and the choice also is left to us how to use this information.

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