Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old - BostonHerald.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Sep 08
  

  Takuya Homma

  Google Important

  • Privacy watchdogs also have sharpened their attacks on Google’s retention of potentially sensitive information about the 650 million people who use its search engine and other Internet services like YouTube, Maps and Gmail. If the harping eventually inspires rules that restrict Google’s data collection, it could make its search engine less relevant and its ad network less profitable.
  • To protect its interests, Google has hired lobbyists to bend the ears of lawmakers and ramped up its public relations staff to sway opinion as management gears up to conquer new frontiers.
  • "There are people who think we are plenty full of ourselves right now, but from inside at least, it doesn’t look that way," said Craig Silverstein, Google’s technology director and the first employee hired by Page and Brin. "I think what keeps us humble is realizing how much further we have to go."

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