MediaFuturist: "Google is Like a Gigantic Parasite" says Technology Review's Jason Pontin

January 23, 2008

"Google is Like a Gigantic Parasite" says Technology Review's Jason Pontin

See: "Google is Like a Gigantic Parasite," Technology Review's Jason Pontin.

I think he's way off the mark here. Yes, Google disrupts, yes, they commoditize, BUT they add billions of $$ of value on the other end. If it it wasn't Google doing it, there'd be another 500 hot startups doing so. Or MSFT.

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Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 04:46:01 PM in Companies to watch

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