You don't think about this question every day. But let's pretend for a moment that Google has suddenly disappeared. The company no longer exists. What will become of the world? What will become of the Internet? What will happen to those who used the company's services every day? We will try to answer all these questions in this article.
And it's worth starting with the most important thing: what does Google do and what does it give to the world? Of course, the most important thing is the Google search engine. Without it, users around the world will not be able to efficiently and quickly find the information they need. They will start looking for an alternative to the search engine. Bing and other similar little-known search engines may come to replace, besides, in some countries local options will become popular by analogy with the search from Yandex.
For Russia, the lack of Google search should not be a very big problem, by the way, search from Yandex appeared much earlier than the solution from Google on the world wide web.
Gmail will stop working. Chaos will begin, because many can store important information in their mails, which can significantly affect the financial condition of the account owner. Millions of people will lose important information, and with it, billions of dollars. Everyone knows that information is the most valuable resource in the world.
Mail from Mail.ru or Yandex may come to replace Gmail in Russia. Other countries probably have local mail services as well. Probably in this area, dominance can go to Microsoft with its services, including mail.
Everyone knows that YouTube is owned by Google. Millions of people around the world earn huge money using this site. And the rest of the millions are active viewers and use YouTube as a good platform for entertainment and learning. This service today can be called the center of entertainment on the Internet. Having lost it, the World Wide Web will become noticeably more boring. In addition, Google uses a smart feed and recommendations based on neural networks, it is unlikely that when alternatives appear, we will be offered the same high-quality video hosting. Vimeo is the only good alternative.
Millions of sites around the world will disappear when Google disappears, as they work on Angular, a framework from Google. They will stop displaying a normal font as they are using the free Google Fonts. Many sites use the company's cloud services, Google servers, and other tools in one way or another. The disappearance of the giant can ruin the correct operation of about 30% of the world's sites. Developers will lose many tools, including TensorFlow (a neural network library). We will lose the Chrome browser, but Chromium will remain - this is the Open Source browser that Chrome runs on. Consumers will not be left without Android phones, as this is also an Open Source project. But at the same time, we will lose Google services on smartphones, including Google Play. Google's self-driving car project will disappear, but technically it is worse than Yandex's project.therefore, there will be no special problems here.
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Laptops on Chrome OS will no longer be sold on store shelves, but this, however, is a small loss. There may be much to be lost by the Indians who use the Internet handed out with Google balloons.
We will also lose the best mapping service in the world, Google Maps. In Russia, of course, there is Yandex Maps, and that's good. Google has huge datasets with various data that it received all the time through its services. Many projects have been created on the basis of these datasets, and their disappearance may affect the projects of all companies in the world to some extent. We will lose the Google Translate service - this is the only normally working speech and text translator. No worthy alternatives have yet been invented for him.
Android Wear smartwatches will no longer turn on, as will car multimedia centers on Android Auto. Millions of companies will lose Google as a way to promote their products through the Adsense project. This will lead to a drop in sales and a slowdown in the growth of the world economy. Google Pixel smartphone owners will be left without their favorite gadgets.
As you can see, the disappearance of Google will have a negative impact on the entire global economy. Losses can go up to hundreds of billions of dollars. How do you envision the disappearance of Google?
Oleg Kusov