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Actually, "all over the news" is what it's NOT. Just yesterday there was a story about how Judge Mehta caved to G's desire to keep everything secret. Consequently, the journalists have nothing to write.
I see multiple new articles a day on this. Even covering what can be covered is news haha https://gizmodo.com/judge-says-google-cant-keep-hiding-docs-...
I honestly think the world is a poorer place for having had a single US company dominate so many areas of digital technology for so long. I hope that in another 25 years giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple and so on are just small players in a globally inter-operable, open and diverse technological world.
We need to push politicians to fix the antitrust law. It isn't just Google that is benefiting from this now toothless law.
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Positive impact: Google maps The amount of people that were empowered to explore and discover (or time saved from getting lost) is incredible by any measure
Navigating without a map or with a paper map is a basic skill somewhat smart and civilized people should have. Also a passive map on a screen would be intellectually OK, but the usability sucks in many cases, especially on phones. GPS has made people dumber and lazier. I don't remember when I turned on GPS last time. For maps I find Openstreetmap superiour to Google maps in many cases.
Calculators have made people dumber and lazier. I don't remember when I last multiplied two numbers using a calculator last time.