Google Voice

While researching the topic of over-consumption, my colleagues and I gathered reliable information from websites, documents, books, and graphs in order to gain knowledge about over-consumption. These authors wrote about the positive and negative effects of all types of over-consumption, and they used studies to provide information that supports their stand on the topic. However, we collected data through trusted databases such as Gale, summarized important information, and cited each source in…

Hazardous Cookies When you go on to a site did you ever wonder if you were being watched. Even on your own personal device. Well with cookies you are. These cookies aren't the ones you eat they are “used to track users internet surfing, record their online purchases, and greet them by name when they visit a Website” says Patrick Cunningham the author of the article “Are Cookies Hazardous to Your Privacy?” He also tells us that “a cookie is a piece of information passed between an internet…

It's crazy to see things that you wouldn't think you would see on Facebook. Like when you look at a certain object on a different program and then it just pops up on your news feed then you wonder how it knew that you looked that up. A lot of the time it's just random things that pop up just to get your attention most of the time it doesn't get people attention but when these ads show up, someone else is getting paid as they show up. Every moment that passes by and an ad come in they get some…

From the moment I walked into Google headquarters in New York City last June, I felt like I belonged to something so amazing. All of the employees welcomed me with open arms as I entered a room that felt like the home of technology. Each person in that building had something very unique about themselves however they all shared a common passion which is engineering and technology. Hearing about each of the jobs they offered at Google made me want to learn more about the field of computer…

Google, a leading giant in the technology business, is becoming a company that not only leads the technology world, but starting to lead our world. Google is a company that was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. There hopes were to make it easier for people to go onto the internet and find relevant and useful information to their search. They went to Stanford University and were both working on a project that was designed to compute the popularity of sites. This project was called “BackRub…

Marissa Mayer, the ill-fated CEO of Yahoo!, clearly made some major blunders during her early tenure at the company. Specifically, she lacked a long-term strategy, refused to listen to other members of her team, and invested in a series of failed marketing ventures instead of focusing on improving fundamentals. Miguel Helft from Forbes magazine documents these points quite thoroughly in his article “The Last Days of Marissa Mayer?” Time and time again, Mayer refused to adhere to a single,…

was more than enough to provide for his family. On this page, he uses dialogue to grab the reader's attention and voice his emotions. His use of dialogue is very effective here because…

Everyone is being watched. Everything that is done on the internet is tracked. When most people hear this, they prefer to block all forms of tracking when they browse the internet. This would be okay if it was not for the fact that most people cannot live without several services that require a certain degree of tracking. It is some of these features that people have come to depend on in their everyday life, thus blurring the line that separates acceptable tracking from stalking. This means that…

Larry is most often known for the search engine, Google.com. Google was formally incorporated on September 4th, 1998, at the time other search-engines like Lycos and Infoseek were amongst the most popular search-engines. Google took the world by storm and in December of 1998 it was considered the best search tool on the internet. Google went worldwide in 2001 when they opened an office in Tokyo, Japan. Google also created a platform that would generate advertisements based on recent…

Social Media: The Addiction The new generation of young adults lives amidst a fairly new type of technology that is known as The Internet. When first created, a computer would fill up an entire room. As of 2015, a cell phone that fits in the palm of your hand and the pocket of pants can carry more advanced technology that wasn’t even imaginable in years prior. Social media sites are some of the largest sources for following celebrities, friends, and family and also to be linked to the rest of…