... that a company with the ambition, and apparently the wherewithal, to index the entirety of human knowledge, information and communication -- well, sooner or later some eggs are going to get broken to make that omlet. In Monday's NYTimes, Mr. David Carr adds his voice to Author's Guild class action suit and settlement. Some of Mr. Carr's facts in his piece are a bit cockeyed but in a New-York-City-We-Won't-Get-Bogged-Down-in-the-Silicon-Valley-Details of the story. (See reference to the founder's of Twitter and ex-Googlers which certainly in spirit is not correct.)
Anyhoo...
The morning before I went to visit Google, I searched my Gmail to find my schedule and plugged it into my Google Calendar before pumping the address into Google Maps. I checked Google News to make sure that I was up to date on the latest headlines and made a file of questions in Google Docs and then hit the road, driving down from the Bay Area to see the basket where I store all those eggs at a cost of exactly nothing.
When I told Mr. Schmidt I was worried about Google’s dominant presence in my digital life, he said: “It’s a legitimate concern. But the question is, how are we doing? Are our products working for you?”
Why, yes they are. And if a book is ever written about all this, Google will probably be able to serve that up as well.
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When I told Mr. Schmidt I was worried about Google’s dominant presence in my digital life, he said: “It’s a legitimate concern. But the question is, how are we doing? Are our products working for you?”
Why, yes they are. And if a book is ever written about all this, Google will probably be able to serve that up as well.
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