Apparently the word Google is a the number '1' with 100 zeros behind it, and after reading the online article, 'The age of permanent net revolution' by John Naughton, I can see why it is an appropriate name for the search engine.
The internet is estimated to contain over 3,000 billion websites, and is growing at a rate of 25,000 webpages per hour!
The process of new technologies taking over old ones known as 'endism', is becoming a reality especially in the case of broadcast TV. Internet Protocol TV (IPtv) is fragmenting the television viewing market, and why wouldn't it be!? Youtube for example, allows users to view the specific content they want to see, free from bias and censorship, witch is laced through commercial TV, and view it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 20 years ago, a successful tv show would attract 20 million viewers, but in another 5 years time a TV broacaster will be considered lucky if they recieve 200,000 ratings.
The lack of censorship on the internet has led to the success of blogging, with a new blog being posted every second. Some blogs are pure vanity, but many are well researched (such as mine haha) and of a high merit.
Personally I cant see 'endism' causing the death of free-to-air TV, just as TV didn't lead to the death of radio when it was produced. Why? Because sometimes it is good being told what to do, and this is what the push-media provides.
From the website: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1723622,00.html
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