Blog 7, I Dare You Hacker.

I believe we are all vulnerable to hackers these days.  All of my "money" is just a digital number that exist somewhere in the data world and is not a physical figure.  Now even though i am a poor college student, the little money i do have is very valuable to me.  I realize that when i look at my bank account that the amount of money i have is just another statistical figure in the sea of finances in this country.  I access my bank account online and rarely buy things off of the internet but still feel like i am always at risks of being hacked.  Hackers dont need much as you can see and i was shocked to see that information that i thought was personal, is readily available to those who want to look hard enough for it.  Though i may not be a threat to get hacked at this very moment, the future of my identity and money is something that i wish to take great care of.  As this article shows hacking is something that has been going on for a long time and the ways of hacking are only going to get more elusive.  This is a scary thing because i plan on growing my finances in the next couple of decades and i dont want my life in jeopardy of being hacked.  I almost feel powerless because of the variety of ways hackers can get my information.  Maybe we should all just join the hackers before it is too late and the financial system of the United States is ruined.

how do you search?

The main search engine I use is google.  I remember in 4th grade when my teacher first said, "i found this great website last night, its called gogle."  I think I use google the most because I have used it since I was so young.  Every now and then I will use Bing or Yahoo, but for the most part i stay with google.  I don't know if its the simplicity of typing in google, or just habit of immediately typing it into the browser.  The fact that google is a verb puts it higher on the food chain than any other search engine.  companies need to accept the genericide theme and accept the fact that Google is only going to expand.  The expansion of GMail and blogger and other resources makes Google the lead search engine even though actually searching for things on Google usually ends up in mostly adds.  The few times i do use Bing is usually when i get annoyed with Google or simply cant find the results i want.  The term "google it" has become a common term in the world and i cant see saying, "Bing it" over taking it.  Who knows, in twenty years if Google doesn't continue to transcend itself it may become obsolete.  They must stay on top of every form of technology and who's to say that they will be the first to discover every new form of technology. If Bing could win over all of the Microsoft users it might have a chance to cut into Google's market, but they have a long way to go.  I personally don't see myself changing any time soon.