Saturday, April 14, 2007

Google Acquires Internet

Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet...
The deal ... was now confirmed by the company’s CEO. “This is in line with our vision to make information more accessible to end users,” says Eric Schmidt. “With the acquisition, we can increase the speed of indexing as everything will already be on our servers by the time it’s published.”... “We realized it’s not very cost-effective to buy the internet in smaller portions.” ...
Larry Page argues that privacy is improved by Google’s acquisition, explaining that “[the] main privacy issues for users today are data leaks to third parties. By eliminating all third parties, we closed this hole.”...

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