24 Hours With Google

Matt Dickman has put together a good overview of how Google touches him from the minute he wakes up until the minute he goes to bed. Matt begins by noting that his post the year prior about the same topic was one of his popular ever. Our post about "My Life Without Google" is one of our most popular of all time as well.

From mobile to YouTube to online purchases to billboards on the highway, Matt’s day touches nearly all of the aspects of what Google offers. Here are a few of the good bits:

• 5:15am: Ugh. The day starts to my blaring clock radio. There is an ad running that Google has sold through ClearChannel.
• 9:00am: I surf my favorite blogs, most of them have Google AdWords placed on them even in the feeds. I am reading those feeds with Google Reader.
• 10:00am: Finally! I am free from…damn…it’s another Google SMS alert on my phone. No peace.  (from the toilet!)
• 3:45pm: Just in surfing the web I come across 2 or 3 major sites that run Google for searching site content. MySpace is one of those.

Though Matt misses a whole bunch of Google services… here are a few:

• Did any of his phone calls come in from GrandCentral?
• What about feeds – how many aren’t served by FeedBurner?
• And probably the one he overlooked the most – Google Analytics – how many sites that he visited during the day aren’t running Google Analytics?

What other ways does Google touch us behind-the-scenes that Matt may have missed? Leave them in the comments.