How To Live Free - Part 2 of 5: Enter Google
Google is a major player in providing what defines open source mentality. Provided they do not use much as far as open source technology, they are opening up their services to provide a shared technology environment for free. Take for instance Google documents. I am a big fan of Google documents because primarily it is free. I can edit documents, share documents, and open any type of document for free.
Free is the best word in the dictionary. Take in account that google provides google chat with no advertisements, google voip, and google maps which is my favorite. All other satellite map services cost money, Google equals free in the professor’s dictionary. Google helps me organize my PC’s with Google desktop, even though it learns too much about my tendencies so that it could present better suited advertisements. How Google has grown has me convinced that it is the best search engine out there. I have wanted lycos, yahoo, and excite all become dinosaurs over night.
Take a really good look at Google and see for yourself what it offers. My homepage will forever be Google. Well until they get complacent like Yahoo!! www.google.com/ig - try it!!