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Dorian Gray
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
 
2005-10-08, 07:58

Google does nothing in the public interest, just like every other public company. Google's talk about having a "mission is to organise the world's information" is pure hogwash, not least because only a tiny fraction of the world's information is online.

Can you imagine how much it will cost to provide Wi-Fi across San Francisco? Google can afford to go on wild adventures like this because the huge cost is being met by giddy shareholders at the moment. I'm pretty sure the people at Google haven't got a clue where half of their initiatives will lead, but with so much cash, they can afford to wait and see. At some point Google shareholders are going to realise that this is no wiser than what was going on in the late nineties. Hopefully that will happen before Google becomes omnipotent.
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