""We believe that advertising and editorial should be split. We do the best job we can with computers and such to give you the best search result content. We don't do pay for placement," said Page.
Sounds like another era."
And this is what happens. Money starts to influence all decision makers, the one at the top end up in a protected circle of people who both feed and reflect back the ethos that generally colours all positions of wealth and power.
All political ideals are lost. Lost touch with any kind of 'doing good' you thought you were achieving as an excuse for chasing after money.
So you become the big, faceless corporate powerhouse that you at one time despised. Well done, Google, you have hit the heady heights of IBM, HP, Microsoft et al and you can now see what awaits you. You will become irrelevant as you lose more and more touch as you try to control more and more. Sure you have years of your dotage left, but as long as you keep worshipping at your own alter, you will kind of end up as one of Pratchett's small gods. Belief in something that no longer exists. Just a shell. A body on life support, al the signs are there except that which makes it a person.
Don't worry, though, Facebook is fast on your heels.
You can't stop the signal.
Shit. This is what happens when I comment before two cups of coffee...