| Sumario: | Though a quintessential American success story, the Google search engine has begun to attract skepticism from Wall Street and the anger of human rights groups. Google may be a portal to the Internet for hundreds of millions of global users, but it faces difficult challenges. Only a handful of affluent individuals can access it in developing nations, and government-backed competitors present a challenge in technologically advanced countries. The writer argues that Google is not really truly global, that it does not resemble Microsoft as it was 20 years ago, that it rarely comes up with new ideas, that it protects its users' privacy only to preserve its own competitiveness, that is no longer unconventional, that it is vulnerable to collapse, but that it might be morally superior to other companies.
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