OK let me preface this by stating that I am a huge fan of James Bond/ World Domination type of films. I also want to say that this most likely has influenced this topic. Does Google have too much power?

     Google started out as a simple and very good search engine but as time has passed they have expanded. They have added an online office suite, webmail, instant messaging, internal office search. They have attached themselves to our browsers; IE, Firefox, Opera, and have released their own, Chrome. And now they have released their own mobile phone OS, Android, and are trying to soon control all your other calls with a product in limited beta called Grand Central. Soon this will all be mobile with talks of floating Data Centers. And what about their service to index medical records?

     With this much data and information all flowing through one company who is truly monitoring those who monitor us. I know of no other organization who is collecting so much information about our lives, with maybe the exception of the NSA (and who knows they probably use Google themselves). Just think of every time you do a Google search for a product, let’s say “cola” who determines that Pepsi is higher on the list of search results than Coke. With online commerce becoming a major part of our lives, Google can easily manipulate where we “find” the best deals, so what if they didn’t list the company that has the best price because they didn’t pay for the advertising. Who has the power to influence presidential campaigns by putting those article that favor their position higher on the search rankings (the articles you most likely read first). All this is just something to think about. I use Google every day and will most likely continue to do so. They say knowledge is power, what is keeping the company that has all the knowledge from having all the power.  Can James Bond save us now?