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it's very interesting technique if you're verified ... they basically took every pain in the ass and they gave them the blue check which means they know who's a journalist in that system
Google has hardened that a lot. SSL by default, perfect forward secrecy in ways that AOL and Yahoo still have to do, or they're still trying to catch up to.
I think it shows that the patent law in this country was written in a pre-internet era and is out of control. I mean, we didn't have software patents until relatively recently in the history of this country, and the republic survived. I mean, even in the absence of software patents, you still have things like copyright and trade secrets and trademark law, and that was enough to go on until roughly the year 1990, and we were doing quite well in the computer software business. A lot of companies w
But another alternative is that this is actually the way the company is run. I mean, it's really run by these different chieftains, and they will present their proposals to Larry, and then he'll try to decide, or maybe try to manage the disputes. I mean, that seems to me to be more like it, as opposed to top-down.
The strategy is, as I understand it, and I think maybe, Liz, you follow it more closely than I do, is you hire your lieutenants and you delegate. And so then you have the head of Google Plus speaking about social, you have the head of Android speaking about mobile, and the head of YouTube, and so on.
I also remember Google was moving about two months ago in early September to encrypt precisely these links. One interesting number we don't know is what percentage of the links were already encrypted. This is what I'm talking about, inter-data center links back even before Snowden. I suspect the number was pretty high.