Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe has a long article about how Google managed to remain "fundamentally likable", as he says, while today being "a behemoth, with more than 15,000 employees and a market value as big as Coca-Cola and Boeing combined". He mentions concerns that even provided Google sticks to its privacy policy and handles the sensitive information we feed it sensibly indeed, "government might compel it to turn over search information." Drake argues "Google has so outpaced its rivals that it has begun to look like a monopoly" and goes through various different sugge ...
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