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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.