Oprah Says “Thank God for Google!”

Written by Rosalind Gardner on September 19, 2007 · Comments (7)
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During yesterday’s Oprah “Mothers Battle Autism” show, in which Jenny McCarthy discussed her son Evan’s autism, she mentioned that she went straight to Google after receiving his diagnosis to begin researching a way to help her son out of his ‘trap’.

She immediately found a ton of great dietary information (i.e. eliminate wheat, milk and artificial coloring) that did in fact help her to help her son start breaking down those walls.

Oprah responded by saying “Thank God for Google!“.

No kidding. I often wonder how the heck we all actually managed to accomplish anything before we could ‘Google it!’.

As an online entrepeneur, I probably use Google’s services more than the average person. But like Jenny and Oprah, I use Google.com to find answers to all sorts of different questions - beyond the new and weather that I peruse every day.

Questions related to health, finance, entertainment, shopping, TV and technology.

I use it to expand my culinary expertise and experience, i.e. I found a recipe for lamb shahi korma that was so delicious that an East Indian friend asked for the recipe after I prepared it for him.

I also use Google to find fabulous out-of-the-way vacation spots about which my travel agent doesn’t even know, and use Google Earth to do virtual trips around the planet.

Forget wasting money on long distance telephone calls, my friends and I have agree that Google Talk’s reception is better than either phone or Skype, not to mention free. We share and manage project doduments using Google Docs.

That’s just the tip of the Google iceberg, but here is a list of 15 Google services that I use regularly.

  1. AdSense
  2. AdWords
  3. Alerts
  4. Analytics
  5. Calendar
  6. Docs
  7. Google Adwords Editor
  8. Google Earth
  9. Gmail
  10. Groups
  11. iGoogle
  12. Maps
  13. News
  14. Google Reader
  15. Talk

So, like Oprah, I too am thankful for Google and particularly grateful to its creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

So… which Google services do you like and use?

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    7 Responses to “Oprah Says “Thank God for Google!””

    Thank God For Google! » Internet Profit Planning on September 21st, 2007 8:38 am

    […] was doing my daily blog browsing and came across a cool post by Rosalind Gardner, about Autism, Oprah and Google.  She posted: During yesterday’s Oprah “Mothers Battle Autism” show, in which Jenny McCarthy […]

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    Akin Alabi on September 21st, 2007 16:23 pm

    Yes. Thank God for google. I love their adsense program. I don’t do more than a few hundreds of dollars monthly, but it comes in on autopilot.

    I can’t believe there was no google 10 short years ago.

    Akin Alabi

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    Shawn on September 25th, 2007 20:28 pm

    Google has provided a ton of free resources to convert the average joe who has nothing into someone that feels like he is MORE than something. In addition, I feel blessed to have an online affiliation with them myself. :-)

    Shawn Drewry

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    John Otis on September 26th, 2007 5:09 am

    question: My wife and myself are both disabled, in August we received a patent which we did for worlds only walker with automatic brakes,no squeezing, just lean and stops a 250 lb. person,we need help getting this out so blind, disables,students,shoppers etc can take advantage of it. SBA thinks it great. How about an article on marketing? thanks

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    John Otis on September 26th, 2007 5:16 am

    question # 2, comment to previous one on walker. We did this ourselves and have very little money to none! How about a series on steps on where and how to market a product and the steps,to reach google with something that would work for everybody. Thanks John

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    Brian Cotsen on September 26th, 2007 5:18 am

    You know I totally agree with you Ros

    What i appreciate about Google is that even if it doesn’t give you the instant answer, more often than not you get closer to the answer.

    I often use Google to begin my research even if I eventually go off to a library or book shop.

    I know it is fashionable to debunk Google, because they have become so successful, but the truth is … they deliver!

    However I want to throw something into the pot.

    I have recently been hearing how Google may well frown on websites who have links to third party websites that don’t conform to Googles rigorous standards.

    Well i wouldn’t want any of my visitors to have a bad experience when following a link FROM my website, and I understand where Google are coming from

    However

    I think that it should be the WWW convention that monitor the net NOT Google.

    I am a little uncomfortable knowing that Google, a commercial enterprise, seem to be taking on the role of Police Force or keeper of the gate.

    What do you or other forum people think?

    Thanks again for your news & views… i wont go on as I have signed off on another forum with a long thankyou

    Regards

    Brian Cotsen
    The Website Coach

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    Basic SEO Techniques on December 10th, 2007 22:58 pm

    google is really great for all the webmaster in the world, specially its products. thanks google to give all the products worldwide.

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