François Schiettecatte’s Blog

August 30, 2007

Google is a capitalist tool?

Filed under: General, Search — François Schiettecatte @ 7:32 pm

Two (1, 2) good articles in the Economist about Google.

Google will face more and more scrutiny as time goes by and will need to deal with it:

One obvious strategy is to allay concerns over Google’s trustworthiness by becoming more transparent and opening up more of its processes and plans to scrutiny. But it also needs a deeper change of heart. Pretending that, just because your founders are nice young men and you give away lots of services, society has no right to question your motives no longer seems sensible. Google is a capitalist tool—and a useful one. Better, surely, to face the coming storm on that foundation, than on a trite slogan that could be your undoing.

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