At the time, Google was not hugely profitable like today, and were very conscious of costs. Meanwhile their hosting company was making a trillion in profit /s.

At the time, Google was not hugely profitable like today, and were very conscious of costs. Meanwhile their hosting company was making a trillion in profit /s. Google plays fast and loose with ethics and definitions, from (shall we call it) penalizing competitors and then releasing a clone to working with Visa and MasterCard ala Wikileaks to cut off the money http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/google-wants-to-stave-piracy-sites-to-death/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/google-wants-to-stave-pirac... to sites with "piracy sites." Their PR hasn't worked on me for a few years and there's even a boomerang thanks to it.