> Do you mean "we, the people" or "we, the people who think in terms of Nash equilibria"? ;) The latter, of course. WE ARE A NEW PEOPLE! WE WILL PREVAIL! More

> Do you mean "we, the people" or "we, the people who think in terms of Nash equilibria"? ;) The latter, of course. WE ARE A NEW PEOPLE! WE WILL PREVAIL! More seriously, I don't care about how big the company is either, as such -- but I do worry about a company that gets so big and so diversified that it may become anticompetitive and stifle innovation. Remember when Microsoft had the power to hold back innovation, and we were stuck with IE6 for years and years? Didn't that just suck? Google is being a lot better about this, mind you. They seem to genuinely care about interoperability and making it possible for competitors to beat them by being better. And they've got good products and smart people and a non-broken management structure. I feel good about Google. Nevertheless, a Google-dominated web is something to worry about. I hope that there are always viable alternatives. Not because I think Google is evil and corrupt, but because I worry that they could become so.