> Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.¹ Yet this particular bit of information is too expensi

> Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.¹ Yet this particular bit of information is too expensive to make accessible and useful. They have this giant correlation machine, and they don't use it to know as much as they can about their own company? How convenient. I know, "one does not simply", but still: aren't you supposed to keep salary records anyway. Wouldn't you keep them even if you didn't have to, just in case? Wouldn't you run some statistics over them, just to see the trends? Obviously, as rayiner says, Alphabet have other reason not to hand over the data. [1]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ (meta description tag)