So Eric Schmidt is out, and Google’s original CEO Larry Page is back in charge. Hopefully, this will mean an end to policies like the “creepy line” that Schmidt was lampooned for so many times last year. Since Page was in no small part responsible for Google’s early success, it’s a hopeful sign that this change is going to take the company back to the kind of direction that made everyone love it in the first place.
Of course, this could mean no difference in the long run, only time will tell what Mr. Page is going to do as the man calling the shots. The company has the unofficial motto of “Don’t be evil”, though, so hopefully this change will take the company away from the invasive practices that they’ve been tending toward for the last year. Personally, I think that this leadership change is, as Schmidt said in a recent update to the Official Google Blog, for the best.
So, as long as the company stops scaring us all with the possibility that it actually is trying to become the third half of our brains, that means we can expect things to go a lot smoother for everyone. Everyone who’s trying to do honest business online may well be able to get things done more effectively in the near future.
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