I’m reading this book for one of my classes called “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman.  I won’t get into too much about what the book is about except to to say that globalization has leveled the playing field among countries so that the world is now indeed flat instead of round like we once thought it was.

What I wanted to share with you are all the amazing abilities of Google that I never knew about before!

1. Want to know what’s for dinner, just google three ingredients in your fridge and see what pops up.

2.  Go here to see pretty much every service under the sun that Google offers.

3. Did you know you can translate something whether it be a simple phrase, a whole document, or an entire webpage?

4.  If you download the Google toolbar you can add what services you are most interested in like a translator button that also allows you to just hover your mouse over any word on a web-page and it will translate the word for you right there.  My favorites are the dictionary, facebook feed, and Craigslist button.

5. Oh ya and let’s not forget about Google scholar where you can view entire books right there on your internet browser.  Go ahead and try it, go to google scholar type in a book or an article title and see if it comes up.  They’re not all there yet but I hear it’s just a matter of time.  I tried it with The Five Love Languages and there it was!

How long has this been going on for?  Have I really been sleeping through it, am I the only clueless one left or what?  When did Google become my very own FREE personal assistant?

I swear I am not getting anything from Google for writing this, I just think it is really awesome.

tags: google, the world is flat, thomas friedman