Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!
If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.
I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
I definitely don't Google myself, because I get paparazzi'd every day. You're bound to have something happen and someone mean writes something. There's no power. You don't know who they are, and they're behind the computer. Just don't read it.
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.