Digital Civil Rights

My Safari browser has decided that Google is the internet.

As I write this post, Google is in a blackhole of sorts, gone off the face of the internet map. Instead of my browser registering an error from the part of Google's servers, this is what is telling me :

Of course, my internet connection is fine and dandy. Yet the browser does not understand that. It registers Google's absence as a problem with internet connection.

Now if I take a look at my blog submit page, I find this :

The page has all links to Google's servers reporting errors.

This should be sobering to the millions of people who are now switching to Google's servers for all their technology needs.

I honestly don't think it is good business practice to rely on web services like GMail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Groups, Picassa, Checkout --eventhough I make use of all these services myself. I consider them fallbacks more than primary services because, on the net and with Google, you just never know.

Sure, their servers may be up and running by the time I finish this post. Yet the point is still valid : By it's ubiquitousness, Google is becoming the internet.

That sure makes me wary.