Comments on: I Love Google, or, Google Bashing: We Love to Hate What We Love

By: Jon Collins

Jon Collins — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:34:54 +0000

Nice post, balanced. Google’s doing lots of good things but its a business, not a “force for good” - now with shareholders that are keen to grow the stock price. In other words, Google’s future lies in compromise, not charity. I’d be prepared to make a number of “bets”:

- Google will never own the Internet
- Another, currently unheard of company will take on Google and win
- There will be some high-profile falls taken by Google

Lets all remember, we are still in the middle of something, not at the end.

By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:37:51 +0000

Here’s the thing, ads can’t pay for the whole internet.

But they probablly can pay for one megacorporation if said mega is serving all the ads for the entire internet.

The question is, when the Internet is owned by Google (which is scary and comforting at once [that is, it's in their business model at that point that they have to protect the internet, but that governments would have a location to actually attack the internet]), where do all the ads live?

I wonder if God Emperor Brin the VIII will keep the “Do No Evil” motto as part of his reign over the Human Federation of Worlds.