Disclaimer: I do not hate Google; I use their search and email daily. I hate to be this guy, but... > OK so you’re probably thinking wow! That’s a lot differ

Disclaimer: I do not hate Google; I use their search and email daily. I hate to be this guy, but... > OK so you’re probably thinking wow! That’s a lot different from what Google does today. Not really. Google is in a business of selling ads. In addition, they do make money on selling/sharing/exchanging information, mostly indirectly. > But as we explained in our first letter to shareholders, there’s tremendous potential for technology more generally to improve people’s lives. .. and shareholders did not care about that. If you own shares of a hospital chain then you may care. But when you hold shares of Subway, Coca-Cola or Google, in those particular markets you care less about people's lives. You care about bottom line. > So don’t be surprised if we invest in projects that seem strange or speculative compared with our existing Internet businesses. We are not surprised. But since you sun-setting pretty good, useful projects like Google Reader, and you taking Jobs advice of "stay focus on only couple [most profitable] projects at the time", we ask: "where is the catch and how you gonna make money _otherwise_ than selling info or exchanging it?" Just recently I have cancelled my 23andme kit (they gave me some hardtime though and never fully recovered the fee (taking legal action is simply not worth the $)), because after doing some research I found it that 23&me owner is family with Brin. There is no chance in this world you will tell me Google will not try to make money off of my DNA this or another way) http://www.crunchbase.com/company/23andme http://www.crunchbase.com/company/23andme