a neologism that describes the expansion of Google's search technologies and aesthetics into more markets, web applications, and contexts, including traditional institutions such as the library.
Yeah so, googlization - that's a thing now. Not only is Google a word, but Googlization is a recently created word, as is evident by the definition above (which, ironically enough, contains a word I had to Google - neologism - which literally means "a new word"... now how fitting)
When exactly did Google even become a word? It's both a noun and a verb to boot - it's got double meanings. Google itself is a thing, but "to google" something is also a thing. When did this all even happen? The irony is that it seems like such a new and crazy concept that it's so popular, and yet, thinking back on my profoundly extensive twenty-two years, I can't even remember a time when I wasn't googling - it's just always been so readily available, and effective. Even in grade school I used it, because teachers would insist that "Wikipedia is not a real source" and that to find the information, we'd have to do real research - party-poopers. But because of this, we were forced to take to Google and find research on our own -- but not really. Because Google did it for us - yes, we had to read all the articles to find the best ones to use, but Google gathered them all together in one place for us to do so. HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?! WE COULDN'T EVEN DREAM OF THIS TECHNOLOGY FIFTY YEARS AGO. WHAT EVEN IS LIFE?!
Sorry, but I thought that realization warranted the use of caps-lock. Think about it, honestly, how bizarre it is that we can utilize Google for pretty much anything, and how quick and easy it is to do so. We don't even give it a second thought; in fact, often times when we're simply reading for a class and see a new word (or neologism, rather ;) all we have to do is open a browser window, type in Google, put in the word or phrase we need the definition for, and we're done. I always exit out of it too, as soon as I've read the definition, as if it was barely ever even there. And yet, without it, where would we be? Since teachers still don't consider Wikipedia a viable source, and likely never will, we have to use Google - and without fail, we are always able to find what it is we're looking for, even if we have to go through a hundred pages of results to find it. It's still a hell of a lot faster than it would be without the wonder that is Google. And that, ladies and gents, is called progress. Or Googlization. Googlization works too.
But still, WHAT EVEN IS LIFE THOUGH?
Forever flustered,
- Robyn
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