Google's pretty obviously in the best position to be able to tell, and famously and religiously acts from that position to a fault. You said it. I'm reminded o

Google's pretty obviously in the best position to be able to tell, and famously and religiously acts from that position to a fault. You said it. I'm reminded of a line from Stephenson's Snow Crash: Hiro runs down the center of the Towne Hall... He turns off all the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern. Google's big mistakes will be the best documented mistakes in human history, especially in retrospect when historians have sufficient time to sort the data from the chaff. But that doesn't mean the mistakes won't happen.