Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.

[mandy]

It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce.

Of course, Google has always wanted to be more than a search engine. Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize the world's information. High-minded as that sounds, Google's ever-expanding agenda has put it on a collision course with nearly every company in the information technology industry: Amazon.com, Comcast, eBay, Yahoo!, even Microsoft.

In less than a decade, Google has gone from guerrilla startup to 800-pound gorilla....

full article: http://wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/google.html

[jezebel]

Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce

I predict Google is going to overextend itself and the areas it excels in will suffer as a result..