Yes, Google's search page was a work of art that would make Edward Tufte proud. What we didn't know then is that Google would achieve exponential growth to rea

Yes, Google's search page was a work of art that would make Edward Tufte proud. What we didn't know then is that Google would achieve exponential growth to reach trillion dollar status by surreptitiously harvesting each user's search queery history, tracking their browsing histories by IP address, scanning their gmail, surveilling their movements via android, and putting it all together to achieve an advertising monopoly the likes of which Hearst, Pulitzer, Beaverbrook, Ogilvie and Murdoch could only ever dream about. All without the cost of employing a single journalist.