Google is still taking over the world…

My husband recently opted to get the Android phone over the iPhone. He loves it, especially how it integrates with all his other Google stuff. Now he can email me, chat with me on Google Talk, snoop on my Google calendar, all from his phone. He hasn’t looked at me since he got it. He sends me tweets from the same couch I’m sitting on. I think he wants to marry his phone.

The point is, Google keeps doing neat-o stuff and releasing it for little dollars, and that means that Google is slowly taking over the world. We’ll wake up one morning and find that Google has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to itself. And we won’t care, as long as Gmail is up.

I personally use iGoogle as my home page, Gmail for email, Google Talk for chat, Google Calendar to manage my schedule, Google Reader for reading websites, Chrome for web browsing and Google Docs for all my documents. I have set up my Google Profile so people can find my online stuff easier. Google even helps me track the swine flu. Once the Chrome OS comes out, I will strongly consider ditching Windows. Google Wave does not seem like it will be the game changer everyone thought it would be, but it’s probably a nifty little program that I would definitely use if I actually collaborated with anyone. All in all, Google owns my ass.

And I don’t care. Should I? I’m not sure. Google messes up occasionally, as they did with the iGoogle redesign last year, and as far as I can tell, they do not believe in customer support, at least not for their non-paying customers. But all of their software does a good job, it’s free, it’s easy and it plays well together. By the time we figure out the downside, it will probably be much too late…

P.S. LifeHacker offers up seven easy ways to integrate your Googled world and free tools to back up your Googled data.