Google, 10 Years In: Big Friendly Giant or a Greedy Goliath?

August 19, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Ten years ago next month, in an innocuous suburban garage, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two geeky students at Stanford University, founded a company called Google. They would go on to create what is regularly voted the world’s top brand, earn accolades as the world’s best employers and become billionaires many times over. They would also, say their critics, cut a swath through the laws of copyright, threaten to devour media like a “digital Murdoch” and harvest more of our secrets than any totalitarian government …

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