Sergey Brin Says Google 'Failed To Be on the Bleeding Edge' of Blockchain (cnbc.com)

At an event over the weekend, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that the internet giant missed its chance to be at the forefront of blockchain technology. From a report: Brin, who currently serves as president of Google parent company Alphabet, joined blockchain technology leaders and researchers on a panel at Richard Branson's exclusive Blockchain Summit. "We probably already failed to be on the bleeding edge, I'll be honest," Brin said. Although Google may have missed out on early adoption of the distributed ledger technology, Brin suggested that blockchain is within the wheelhouse of X, the company's semi-secret research division. "I see the future as taking these kind of research-y kind of out there ideas and making them real -- and Google X is kind of like that," Brin said.

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Kind of contradictory

[DrYak]

Google's motus operandi is about amassing piles of stuff :
getting (initially) a huge index of the web,
piling large collection of data to train their IA (training voice recognition from their snippets of google voice),
piling large amount of private personal to better target ads,
etc.

Whereas, the whole key purpose behind all *distributed* ledger systems is to remove the needs of a central authority.

Google and blockchain are on the exact polar opposite of the decentralization scale.