> 2. As far as centralization, from the things I've heard it seems that centralization is considered bad. Everything needs to be distributed, standardized, and

> 2. As far as centralization, from the things I've heard it seems that centralization is considered bad. Everything needs to be distributed, standardized, and redundant. I feel like this has to be a willful misunderstanding of the parent comment. Why would the comment above you, in talking about Google's moral vision and action, be referring to the actual architecture of servers and code? Clearly they are talking about "centralizing" as in "if we can gather all the information together, and all our services can share information, then...." The wiring of the data centers is irrelevant.