If I’ve Said it Once, I’ve Said it a Million Times (or at least 5 or 6)

Google is the man. And, I’m excited to have (yet more) back up of my assertions from another (perhaps reliable) source. This week our Aussie friends at The Beast have posted an interesting video interpretation of Google. ‘Consumer Watchdog’ (I’ll call that reliable enough for me) posted the video on behalf of The Beast as licensing rights don’t extend to viewing to the US. I bring this up as this has been a topic I’ve been meaning to get into for a while and will probably post about soon. However, for now I’ll stick to the topic at hand.

Just a short synopsis of the video: Google has it’s hand in phones, email, cables, electricity, and health care. Health care? 97% of Google’s revenue comes from advertising. Think about it. Just a company, like any other company. One who has interest in all of these areas and more. They have money in genetic testing. Genetic testing. What if tobacco giant Phillip Morris owned a company that had money in all of these things? Of course, who is to say they don’t.

My big question is: why? What I’d like to see, and would love for someone to share with me, is an expose on why they have interest in all of these areas. They already know where we are, what we are doing, what we spend our money on.

The only thing that makes me more nervous is Google merging with Facebook. As a final thought, check out this article, ‘How I Got Groped by Facebook’, also posted on Consumer Watch. I just keep thinking ‘Where’s the James Bond to this Dr. No’? This time we’re talking about a different virus.