Google's Impact on the Internet

Kierkegaard writes "The Globe & Mail and Fortune Magazine both wrote a piece on Google, arguably one of the most important companies in the world, and its influence and impact on the Internet. In particular, they mention the effects of Google's recent new services, like Blogger and Maps, as well as their take on how Google threatens the Microsoft Corporation. "If Sergey and Larry stick to their corporate mantra -- Don't be evil -- and are able to stem degeneration into the typically corrupt corporate ethos, who knows, they may just succeed in assuming the fair and honourable dominion over the world's information they so naively set out to achieve eight years ago in their garage.""

Comments

Re:Google important?

[mwvdlee]

If cars weren't around, you'd just walk. If beds didn't exists, you'd just sleep on the ground. If fire was never discovered, you'd just eat raw meat. Are any of these therefore unimportant?

Okay...

[koreaman]

Are we supposed to get a hard on every time Google is mentioned now? What's up with /.'s Google saturation lately?

Re:Google important?

[IchBinEinPenguin]

And if MS weren't around we'd all be using Apple (or something).
Just becuase, in an alternate rality, someone else _could_ have taken their place doesn't make them unimportant.
If Earths atmosphere didn't have O2 we might have evolved to breathe methane instead. Doesn't mean O2 isn't important!

Re:Perhaps...

[packeteer]

Are you saying people in the 16th century were unhappy becuase they didn't know what they were missing out on? Are you trying to say Google is as revolutionary as an automobile?