I worry about Google. But then I remember that they can barely return relevant search results these days without getting confused by keyword farms. Remember tha

I worry about Google. But then I remember that they can barely return relevant search results these days without getting confused by keyword farms. Remember that Schmidt has to talk up Google's capabilities. In reality, he's oversimplifying the situation and Google's shear size and age will be its demise just as it was for Microsoft. Google's 20-something and early 30-something employees who had no problem working for 10-14 hour days this decade will begin to pull back and/or leave the organization. This will be followed by a slew of lacklustre product and service launches (e.g., Microsoft Vistas) until Google is but a mere shadow of its former self. Of course, that does leave another company or government to actually do to Google what it in turn did to Altavista. And it's that entity which scares me because it might be a foreign government or corporation with a completely different culture and set of constraints around freedom, privacy, and ethics. We know how bad companies/governments act in the Western World where we try to uphold individual rights. But what if another government or company in an area of the world where individual rights aren't respected gets there first?