What really cooked my noodles about how much Google affects the world was that the next Sunday – I was listening to the radio, and Galatz (Israel’s army radio – for those reading this outside of Israel) had an item, in the hourly news flash, about the Google outage.

It was amazing that a software glitch was so important to warrant an item in the hourly news flash, and worse – they had two “people on the street” sound bits of people complaining that they couldn’t use the web because of Google. They never have opinion sound bits on the hourly news flash!