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Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
John Battelle
2.
It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
John Battelle
3.
Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.
John Battelle
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The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
John Battelle
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Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.
John Battelle
6.
Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
John Battelle
7.
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.
John Battelle
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The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.
John Battelle
9.
WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.
John Battelle
10.
Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
John Battelle
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The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
John Battelle
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We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.
John Battelle
