Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.