A nice thing about Google is that its interests have been aligned with the public good: more internet access, more websites, more blogs, more webapps. (Their in

A nice thing about Google is that its interests have been aligned with the public good: more internet access, more websites, more blogs, more webapps. (Their interests are now diverging a bit, as they try to extract more personal information. Facebook did a nice trick where people actively give them their personal information...) Not sure if the alignment is as deep for Facebook - more people with internet benefits them, but does more internet content?