The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

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

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

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.