Is Google stepping closer to EPIC?

So, Time Warner is selling 5 per cent of AOL to Google. Where will this lead?

According to the NY Times, "Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before." They also note, "Representatives of Time Warner, Google and Microsoft declined to comment."

This is the same Google that always promised it would never play the favourites game. As InfoWorld says: "The lesson? Never, ever trust a capitalist who pretends to be otherwise."

Google has much to commend it, and I'm a fan, but like many others, more than a tad concerned about monopoly. It's amazing how much news Google is generating in just one day (on Google News):

Google to Pay Billion Dollars for 5% AOL Shares
Google Launches Music Search Feature
Google to Build Pennsylvania Research Facility
Google goes mobile with Gmail

Now listen to the ABC documentary, Googlemania: "Google is now all pervasive, it's a cultural phenomenon, a boundless mediascape and a huge business empire. It's also entered the language as a verb, and it is changing everything. It now plans to digitise every book ever written, and to find it you have to google it. It's creative destruction, it's cool, it's scary -- and it's happening."

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Then watch EPIC -- it's the year 2014 and Google owns everything. Food for thought.

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