It’s true.  As their rate of internet growth and usage in the now independent country shows, it’s a whopping 192% growth and 90% penetration between 2000 to 2008. Greenland is more tech savvy than us, racing to embrace the future and make us look bad. Or at least that ’s what an ignorant buffoon who believes that statistics tell the whole story would think. Canada is actually one of the most online countries on the planet, right up there with Japan and the USA. And the fact that our frozen wedge of a neighbour to the north east, with a 100% literate population of 50,000 people, has a higher percentage of its country online is no surprise being that it’s basically an iceberg. What else is there to do but be on the internet? I predict now that Greenland will become a worldwide leader in blog offshoring- or “blogshoring” as I will also now officially coin it. Just look at this recent photo of Greenland’s most infamous blogger, Fridtjov Qeqertarsuaq, working on a post about Vancouver company Thirdi Software. Now on to Google.

The Canadian government is all up in Google’s face as a recent Financial Post article explains. Google has been seen as an incredible tool for small business to utilize with its range of analytical tools, recently it’s been viewed as a troubadour of open source software development and management IT solutions for its focus on cloud based technology and open source systems like Wave; and all that and more in under a decade. So it’s no wonder that governments in both the USA and Canada are stopping to take a look at Google, as it wields the internet sorcery that has become such a vital part of our economy and lives. According to the FP article Christine Varney, the American Department of Justice head of antitrust cases, raised her concern that the internet was “…increasingly coming under the sway of the online search giant” It brings up nostalgic memories of Microsoft VS the USA antitrust suits of the late 90s.

In Canada the government is concerned that Google is becoming a monopoly much as Microsoft was viewed in those days, and it may try to overwhelmingly steer users towards its own services and affiliates- stifling competition. Google, conversely, is concerned that the Canadian government will become too stringent and regulatory concerning the internet in Canada and stifle the internet in general. Oh, and this is what a troubadour historically was. Now how does this all tie in to my post’s title? Maybe we should all think long and hard about that.

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Tags: cloud based technology, Google, Microsoft, most infamous blogger, open source, rate of internet growth

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