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Google drops idea to buy newspaper
- Raphael 17y agoBut I was really looking forward to picking up The Daily Google from my doorstep each morning.
- derefr 17y agoIt could be justified: Everything Google does is a search of one thing or another. A newspaper is a search of reality (a big database), by journalists (smart agents), for content that is under-ranked in popularity (breaking stories.)
- johnnybgoode 17y agoGoogle's mission (to "organize all the world's information") can be used to justify virtually anything. I don't think this is a coincidence. (I'm tempted to get political here.)