Google dominates first day of internet training

Google may be having the lion share of global online searches traffic but the search engine's dominance also proved to be overwhelming in the investigative internet training organized by the Media Institute of Southern Africa in conjunction with VIKES of Finland.

At least this proved to be the case on the inaugural day when the training opened up with a bit of challenge for some of us, who having hailed from upcountry, the direction to venue was somehow confusing, luckily there was Google Map which surprisingly proved to be more detailed in Dar-es-salaam than say, Arusha where I come from.

As Google or its map led me to the IFM building flawlessly, it also became apparent that the entire class will be stuck with it for the rest of the day as searching information from websites got to be the main topic.

During the day's session, Google towered high with its popular search engine though somehow we wondered why the trainer stuck to this dominant search engine ignoring other outputs like Yahoo or Microsoft's own, Bing.

With just eight 'students' the class was modest, but the computers provided were even more modest, refusing to display a number of websites including Gmail. 

Anyway after wrestling with them for a while we eventually managed to make Blogger.com work and got to register other blogs, specifically for training purposes, mine got the name of 'Mount Meru,' which is Tanzania's second highest peak forming the landmark background for Arusha City.