The Search Party

Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics.

Google's ambitions had not gone unnoticed by its competitors. What Google had created--an ingenious tool for searching the Internet--had evolved into something almost unimaginably far-reaching. The company's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Making information "universally accessible," though, is an ambitious goal that often clashes with those whose business is to own and distribute it. Full Story »

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Tish Grier
4.6
by Tish Grier - Oct. 1, 2008

"Google’s power is shaping what’s happening to other industries...." A fine piece of investigative journalism showing the many facets (or is it monster heads?) of Google, and how on both sides of the isles on Capitol Hill, Google is barely understood (and was, for many years, dismissed...) Unlike articles in tech or business publications, this story not about the personalities and precociousness of Google's founders, but about the company's incredible growth and how it is affecting every aspect of American life right down to our notions of privacy.

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