If You Have A Child, You'll Notice

Search Companies, Which I Won't Mention By Name, Tried To Do So Many Things At The Same Time, They Forgot All About Search. They Either Missed The Next Revolution Of Search Or They Created An Opening For A Google To Enter.

There Is A Science To Managing High Tech Businesses, And It Needs To Be Respected. One Of Them Is That In Technology Businesses, Leadership Is Temporary. It's Constantly Recycling. So The Asset Has Limited Lifetime.

A Lot Of The Google Inventions Came From Engineers Just Screwing Around With Ideas. And Then Management Would See Them, And We'd Say, 'boy, That's Interesting. Let's Add Some More Engineers.'

I Do Want To Emphasize That We've Seen An Explosion In The Use Of Google Maps And Google Earth For Education. The Earth Is A Special Place. It Is Our Home And It's Why We're All Here. And The Ability To See What's Really Going On The Earth, The Good Stuff And The Bad Stuff, At The Level That You Can, Is Phenomenal.

To Me, What You Want To Do Is Find A Way To Let This Play Out Between The Virtual World And The Physical World...ultimately, I Think Society Will Get There. It Will Be Messy, But We'll Get There.