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Ask HN: What will be the legacy of Google?

• mooism2 15y ago
  That's a bit of a difficult question to answer. Who in 1920 could have predicted General Motors' legacy would include lead poisoning, the impoverishment of Detroit, the rise of suburbia and the exurbs, a large US military presence in the Middle East, etc? And they're not done yet.
  • nandemo 15y ago
    You seem to have an extraordinarily comprehensive definition of "legacy".
    • mooism2 15y ago
      Your question seemed future oriented --- "will be" rather than "is". Google is a rather broad company --- they do search and web advertising of course, but also blogging, e-mail, video hosting, money transference, operating systems, etc. Who knows what products they'll come up with next year? You seem to have been expecting us to focus on something more specific.