Google disruptive impact
Google has had a dramatic impact on a variety of industries, with enormous economic consequences.
Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and chief executive, expects that one day Google will be a $100 billion enterprise. Being the gatekeeper for the world's information turns out to be a lucrative business, especially without the expense of creating any of it. In "Googled," New Yorker writer Ken Auletta explains how Google so rapidly grew from Silicon Valley start-up to global behemoth, and discusses some of the implications.
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