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

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.

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.

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

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