loudspeaker - 8:31 am on Jan 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

Google has no innovation (their products were invented elsewhere or they're copies of other products), no deep mutually-beneficial relationships with industries, no ecosystem.

In Google's defense: I think you're being too harsh. Google does innovate quite a bit. And they didn't quite "copy" GoTo.com - they actually made it much more efficient by using other metrics than simply advertisers' bids.

But forming symbiotic relationships is another matter. Actually, that's where I see the root of the problem. Collectively, they behave like a child suffering from some form of autism. They pursue efficiency and simply don't understand why anyone would object to their grandiose designs on our lives and our data. Real-life words and concepts like "culture", "relationships", "feelings", etc mean absolutely nothing in Mountain View. Their "culture" is what can be measured in bytes, milliseconds or dollars. Everything else is immaterial, irrelevant and unnecessary.

One day, to their big surprise, they'll find out that the world doesn't consist ONLY of data and traffic and speedy algorithms to crunch that data; a strange unknown entity called GOODWILL, as well as such unimportant quality as the ABILITY TO PLAY NICE WITH OTHERS can be crucial to one's success.