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  Joe. G

  9 måneder dage siden

  The industrial era businesses you speak of would, could and should fall by the way side if our economy operated in a true free market society and let them fail. Since we don't, they won't and we will continue to begrudgingly impart government intervention that is not unlike socialism. The guise of a capitalist is exactly that. A disguise.
  
  If/when Google shits the bed there would be no one to the rescue. Google recognizes that complacency equals death and their only sustainable resource aka safely net is innovation. A general lack of ego has allowed them to admit that they will never come up with all the solutions internally. They embrace their users/customers as their greatest assets.
  
  Its easy to say "the customer is always right" but it's amazing how few companies do just that. Chrome, from the little I've read seems like another way to not only build a community but give individuals exactly what they want; empowerment.
  
  Its hard to fail when you get everyone involved.
  
  ~ Joe. G
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  Pete Spande

  9 måneder dage siden

  In general, I agree. Certainly seeing the same kind of corporate altruism in the software space where companies like IBM hire 100s or 1000s of developers that are asked to simply improve the linux kernal and associated open source products. What is good for linux is good for IBM.
  
  I'm not convinced that Google will adhere to the "good for web, good for Google" mantra however. Why do I think this? I see more and more of Google appearing prominently in their organic search results. Is that the best result for the searcher? Or does this practice create a self reinforcing loop where the ease of access creates more referrers which creates more links to their properties, and so on.
  
  Also, it may not be so clear what is good for the web. Who decides? Google decides. In general, I agree with their decisions but I no longer trust them to make the right decisions for the web.
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  jamesgross

  8 måneder dage siden

  I agree with you Pete. More and more, Google is portalizing their search results. In time, search will have to be open sourced and released under some sort of GPL. But that is not anytime soon, and it will be projects like the above that will allow Google to diversify their revenue streams in order to give up search as their main money maker.
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