Week 2: The power of a search engine: Web 2.0

      The Youtube video we were presented in class, Web 2.0, simply put, was an eye opener. More than 2 million people have seen this revolutionary video. There were many statistics and facts that would get the average American butterflies and goose bumps. Some of the facts and statistics presented were as follows:

• Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. It took the radio thirty-eight years to reach a market audience of fifty million.
• It took the television thirteen years to reach a market audience of 50 million; it took the Internet just four years.
• One out of eight couples in the United States met online.
• More than 2.7 billion searches were performed on Google in a month. To whom were those questions directed before Google?

     The Internet has the power to educate billions, in days. The fact/statistic about Google searches and the question that followed was, to me, the most powerful fact/statistic presented in Web 2.0.

Without Google and the Internet, where would we find the answers to our questions? Being a young college student I use Google daily for educational purposes. What the amazing thing is, is that friends, my classmates, and me use Google as a casual fact finding service several times a day. I never realized this until Web 2.0 presented the facts about the educational power of the Internet.

With the Internet continuously growing at a ridiculous rate, Web 2.0 has evolved into Web 4.0. Check out the new video and think about 10 years from now. Think about how ridiculous the educational power of the Internet can/will be.