At the moment, there is a common travel exercise where holidaymakers will photograph the same cuddly toy or badly made effigy alongside a major tourist attraction, only to add these sock puppet photos to their travel blog as a zany take on the usual travel photos. Such toys have been known to travel among friends and families on top of mountains or on the bottom of oceans; the over all effect is accessibility, such that the group or sole owner gets to tag a location and bring a recognisable element into an area of unknown. And just how does this relate to Google Docs? Well, Google Docs, too, poses as an emblem of accessibility - it's almost like Google's very own sock puppet.
Recently, Google launched their new suite of word processor and spreadsheet documents that allow single users or even a group of users to access a single document from various locations at the same time. It will allow for concurrency, as the information will be database stored and can rely on database isolation levels to enforce complete 'update' or complete 'ignore' on any changes made to the document. Not only can users attain group access, but they can also "chat in real time with others who are editing [their] spreadsheets." It also allows anyone to master issues of configuration management and keep track of versions and updates. And as for security, the program is protected from prying spiders and crawlers, and can be made public to whoever you choose.
From an SEO point of view, it is a marked example of movement from old, locally stored computing to online server stored information which is accessible from anywhere only by those whom you choose. This moves past web 2.0 and towards an area of interaction which is just beginning to be explored - an area which is perhaps beyond the local hardware of laptops and desktops, and maybe even beyond the local computer all together; it's the realm of WIFI handsets and digital portables.
