We are all Google’s unpaid beta testers
Remember when Microsoft rushed the release of Windows95 - and then used their entire user base as beta testers/blue screen victims?
Suspend disbelief - and the possibility that Google won’t ultimately fall or fold into superior information governmental intelligence databases like Total Information Awareness (don’t be naive - TIA’s database makes Google look like a stack of poorly organized notecards - the government never runs out of money or resources for important projects.)
Let’s pretend we’re in the year 2015 and Google has finally completed their mission:
Company Overview
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine — an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
http://www.google.com/corporate/
So when Google finally has an iron grip on organizing the world’s information and their system has had all the flaws and bugs worked out, who is going to get paid for being their test base? Sure, they pay their employees (and work them to death) - but when will you and I get paid for helping the gargantuan corporation Google perfect their product?
Just a thought.