My Life as Google Ads Sees It

Sometimes, Google acts like god, fate and destiny intertwined. It’s as if it knows the inner workings of my life, how I should proceed and what I should do.

Its omnipresence makes itself felt for every content I consume. Sometimes, I even get the notion that it knows me, more than I know myself. This week, Google made me think about my life and what I should do with it. I decided to evaluate these “action points” and embark on a little introspection. We’ll see whether Google can see my life and whether it really knows me.

Google wants me to buy “Beautiful Hospital Beds”

Try as I might, I can’t think of anybody immediately related to me who would need one. Our family has a history of Diabetes and heart disease - hardly things that would require such comfort. I surmise that the reason for this has to do with my work as a freelance writer for Transfer Master. I write about wheelchairs and inspiring blog posts (at least I hope they are) for people with disabilities.

This somewhat reminds me of the last two years. I’ve lost a lot of people who were dear to me. Three grandparents passed away and I’ve found myself not having any reason to go to a particular city because of that. Their home is still there. The television I gifted them still sits idly in their unoccupied house. So many memories of little chats, certain smells and sounds still occupy my mind. So many shared memories of little triumphs, defeats and pain still linger as I try to recall that place and the memories it had.

Google wants me to be a web or software developer

I totally agree. I need a drastic change in career before I go gray.

There are so many ideas bubbling in my head about certain projects that are just that — ideas. Ideas that somebody out there, would probably turn into reality or a website, before I do.

These ideas need to come alive in a website before I lose time. It reminds me of one of those rare times my father gave me some advice, “You’re running out of time. We’re all running out of time. So learn all you could and learn all you could.” He passed in 2006, but it still feels like yesterday.

Google wants me to buy more domains so I could make more websites

I just recently purchased two domains through GoDaddy and made use of its Sitebuilder. Sitebuilder or Website tonight is good for novices, but you cannot make what I would like to call “game changing websites” with it.

GoDaddy’s Sitebuilder is more of an amped up Geocities, perfect for those who’d like to put up drag and drop portfolio pages.

Frankly, Blogspot could just as well do the job at a fraction of the cost and time. But Blogspot seems to have gone out of fashion with all the new and shiny blog platforms like tumblr, medium, Wordpress, etc. There are always so many ways to make people spend their money on something more expensive with a few more bells and whistles.

I’ve tried namecheap once upon a time and went on a domain shopping spree. But the era of keyword domain buying has long passed, with the advent of the new and weird TLDs.

Google sends mixed messages.

Now I shouldn’t waste time learning how to program and build websites — some AI platform can now do that for me…

This is a bit of a quandary. If artificial intelligence can now build dynamic websites without the aid of web developers, then what would web developers do in the future?

I’m not even a web developer yet and Google is telling me that I am obsolete.

Thanks Google. You really made my day.

Google wants me to buy an iPhone 6

*Scratches head.