Gone Google

“Androidify yourselves.” As the first speaker, Ms. Gail Tan of Google Business Groups (GBG), started GDaysX with such enthusiasm, I thought of what technology has become through the years and about how it has constantly changed the society I belong to.  Truly enough, people have been much more interested in the endless innovations brought about by technology. Google, in particular, has marked the lives of the youth, entrepreneurs, teachers, and a big part of the population all over the world.

These innovations are yet to improve with the users’ help because as GBG claims, these are crowd accumulated. When Google was only starting its own fire, the people behind it focused first on the users and all else followed. It has built communities with the purpose of connecting people to create good things which more often than not are just so cool.

Learning how Google has earned its millions of users today made me realize the chances that lie with just a single click. As a user, I find it like a process of giving and taking. The only thing Google has provided users are the applications by which the users collaborate and come up with something rather remarkable. Because Google has not stopped tapping on people’s desires and dreams, more and more users trusted it to become a part of their success story whether as businessmen or just as ordinary students. It is amazing that as we can androidify ourselves and rely on technology, we can also “personify our androids.”

In the framework of Google, it is the users who keep it going and improving. It is the people who decide which track they are taking with the technology they have in hand. Personifying our androids suggests that with all the opportunities there are in technology, we always have a choice to use it for our own development in whichever field we take. We, users, put technology to life as we let ourselves be part of the technology itself.

Collaboration is the key. The next speaker was Herald Uy of GBG. He shows that Google has been a means of collaborating with other people through the years, be it a professional business meeting or a simple school group work. It had me thinking that yes, Google is not just a searching engine, but a way of building great work together with great people across the globe.

We also heard from Therence John Resabal, a Google Student Ambassador. I have learned about other applications and products Google provides. It came to me that these products’ credibility depends on the users and their consistent sharing through Google. “Building great products depends on great people.”

I have androidified myself. I have personified my android. I have gone Google, have you?