Java Man wrote:

Do you not understand the difference between the
assertive and the interrogative?


I do, and I also understand the use of rhetorical questions.

So, let's recap again. You say:

- Google isn't doing anything proprietary in its web and usenet
aggregating
- All that Google has on me (or you) is a head start

If you don't know Google's trade secrets, how can you expect to have any
credibility asserting that "All Google has that you don't is a head
start, a supoena to appear before the US Congress, and $19 billion less
share value than they had a couple of days ago."?

The silly thing about this whole conversation to anyone that knows even
a little about Google's advantage (no it's not that they were first,
there were many others before them) is their ranking algorithms for the
links returned by the searches.

Their page-rank patent (patents?) are valued by Google's users in that
they seem to return the most relevant results and (with some glitches
along the way) have been very resistant to spamming the rankings that
was constantly happening with all the other search engines.

Their "do no evil" mantra, which as of the announced cooperation with
China is no longer more than marketing hoohaw, was, I think, originally
directed at fears Google would alter their algorithms to favor their ad
clients. They managed to keep that stuff in the margins... as far as we
know.

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