Greed has finally infected a once remarkable company. Those college ‘kids’ grew up and have become infected with the corporate mentality that has just about ruined this country.

I’d also like to point out that Google is now rapidly moving into the software market. Just ask Microsoft. This wouldn’t fit the definition of a “pure” ad network. Like you said, Google is a business interested in the bottom line. I just don’t think that this is a contradictory goal from their nobler “mission statement”.

It takes a lot of money to organize the world’s data. It also takes putting your eggs in a lot of baskets. Google seems to have Green Eggs, and we’re enjoying the Ham.

So, to respond to your last comment, I would just say that there simply is no prioritization when it comes to Google’s philanthropic efforts : You gotta have the cash to do it in the first place.

You’re absolutely right, Google is an ad network. That does not mean, however, that it just gave-up the quest “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. It just means that the latter will take a bit more time.

“Wired: How should we think about Google today?

Schmidt: Think of it first as an advertising system. Then as an end-user system — Google Apps. A third way to think of Google is as a giant supercomputer. And a fourth way is to think of it as a social phenomenon involving the company, the people, the brand, the mission, the values — all that kind of stuff.”