Anti Google Wave – tall poppies?

“Google has an image problem – not a PR problem (that is, not with the public) but a press problem (with whining old media people). Google is trying hard – too hard, perhaps – not to argue with the guys who still buy ink by the barrel. Google is only causing them to buy fewer barrels. And newspaper people will use their last drops of ink to complain about Google’s success and try to blame it for their own failures rather than changing their own businesses.” — This is an excerpt from Jeff Jarvis’s Buzzmachine blog this week . He discusses a problem I am observing myself more and more all the time, this is that large companies and governments seem to be knocking google, but the general public love them.
before going further, read Jeffs blog post. Answer me this because I don’t know the answer, Why are governments all over the world getting really anti Google?

If Google went out of business would the Internet die?
Probably not completely, but a substantial part of it would disappear. There is so much tied up in Google. It’s not just search any more.
Ad revenue from Google’s adwords keeps many sites financial and in some cases Google’s ad revenue accounts for a business’s main income stream. Loss of Ad credit would be significant enough to put a lot of sites out of business if it dried up.

How many blogs?
How many images?

How many jobs at both Google and because of the ripple effect.
70% of the search traffic for the entire Internet. Docs, News, Wave, Gmail,groups to name a subset.

Google is not perfect, far from it. However it is a company founded on good business principles, is not very evil and without it the Internet would be screwed.
I have been employed directly in Internet related work since 1994 and I have never been more excited about The net than i am right now.
We are going through another important growth phase, after which another layer of coolness will be just a click away. I don’t believe the current generational change would be possible without Google.
It would be silly to stop scrutinizing Google. Entities as big and powerful as Google need to be continuously monitored. . Care should be taken however, not to impede them if they are doing nothing wrong.
To do so will slow the emerging technology that will be the basis of the next big revolution of Internet technological change.

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