At the moment, Google’s stock is slightly above $600, and the company has a market cap of $187.42 billion. Given this evidence, it would be hard to say that Google doesn’t like money. But one onlooker has called the search giant greedy and wonders if it will “ruin the Internet.”
shift in the balance will occur by 2011 - Google will grow even more powerful.Which leads Chester to ask, “Do we want a ubiquitous data collection system where private repositories of sensitive information can be sold to the highest commercial bidder -- or turned over to the state for its own political interests?” Even assuming that Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt stick to the “do no evil” way of business, their successors might not.
In related news, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated that Google reads users’ emails.
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