menial - 5:34 pm on May 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

The only entity (other than the Yahoo/MSN competition) that is able to stop Google from their ultimate goal (to gather and organize the world's information) is the European Union. I personally hope that will be the case.

Obviously, Google Inc. is an American company and I don't see how the EU officials would allow one outside company to dominate its market and cross the privacy line of its members. I predict the major legislation blows against Google will come from one of the EU country. The Belgian copyright ruling against Google News was just a start.

[edited by: menial at 5:57 pm (utc) on May 10, 2007]