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The Internet as we know it is dying

By Andrew Leonard It was a week of rage, nostalgia and despair on the Internet. Sure, you could say that about any week on the Internet. But last week delivered some prime material. Check out this gamer exploding in fury at the rumor that Google — “The King Midas of...
Google’s Big Break

Google’s Big Break

It was a great search engine but a money-losing business—until it borrowed an idea from its biggest rival The idea that made Google the world’s greatest search engine was all Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But the idea that set it on the path to becoming the world’s...