ChanandlerBong - 2:21 pm on Nov 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

shoot first, ask questions later BDW. That's what they do. Or, to borrow from another political dispute from a troubled part of the world, they "create facts on the ground".

I like to think of G as a maximum/minimum thermometer. Don't know how often you see those things around these days but we used to use one in the physics lab at my school in the late 70s. There was some sort of metal marker that would get pushed higher and higher up the thermometer as each new maximum was reached...and it wouldn't come back down or move at all until the mercury pushed it further up. This was obviously to measure the maximum...so similar wizardry was on display at the other end of the tube to record the minimum.

Google pushes and pushes, the metal always going upwards. Occasionally, they suffer a minor setback but you know they'll be back pressing onwards sooner or later. And the little measuring marker keeps advancing. They've done it with everything. They've even told us what their goal is, they're not coy about it. They want to organise the world's information.

Oh, BTW, that's YOUR information. They are the shelves of a supermarket, nothing else. The shelves of the store are going to be getting more money than the products themselves.