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Google's Patents Reveal Strategy To Beat Microsoft
linumax writes "According to 'The Google Legacy,' history is about to repeat itself. From the article: 'Microsoft today is where IBM was years ago. And Google is in a position to do to Bill Gates what he did to IBM. The result could be a new industry kingpin. Arnold, author of The Google Legacy, said in an interview this week that it appears that Microsoft doesn't understand Google in much the same way that IBM didn't understand Microsoft 20 years ago. "It will be the Googleplex from 2004 to 2020 - a network paradigm," said Arnold. "It will be enabled by Google's approach to innovation."'"
It's obviously bad, but do you notice how Google gets a pass from the overwhelming majority of the Slashdot community?
Yes, I do. That was the point of my post, actually.
Google does 2 things for which any other company would get flamed to
death on
1) It's a building a phenomenal database of consumer profiles.
The clincher here is it's Web Proxy (good spin to call it Accelerator)
How does this product help google? Think about it?
What's the difference between Google & other companies with spyware
etc. Google gets a free pass, hence doesn't have to use stealth.
2) Patents.