A linkjack from Valleywag in 2006 [http://valleywag.com/tech/google/five-reasons-no-one-will-replace-google-183892.php http://valleywag.com/tech/google/five-rea

A linkjack from Valleywag in 2006 [http://valleywag.com/tech/google/five-reasons-no-one-will-replace-google-183892.php http://valleywag.com/tech/google/five-reasons-no-one-will-re...]? Anyway, companies as big and brilliant as Google don't fail, exactly. They create ecosystems that can keep chugging along for years, as their armies of geniuses build up layer after layer of mind-bogglingly profitable infrastructure. Then one day they wake up and realize the market's moved to something else and they'd have to dismantle everything to compete. Few companies survive that phase. It is fascinating to me that Google's main campus block (buildings 40-43) is just a part of the old SGI campus. And there really were more than 43 buildings built by SGI. They were occupying them even into the early years of Google's ascendancy, wondering why these Google kids didn't have to pay for their lunch.