I seen and heard of something like this before. It would be pretty sweet if somone who actually was in IM became president...
You'd really want some blackhatter running the US? Most people in IM only care about themselves and making money. It's a business and marketing is one of the dirtiest areas of business.
So let's say someone in IM did become president. Do you think he would make laws to make it easy to make money online? If so then everyone would be making money which would mean the slice of the pie is pretty damn small.
Lastly, G is bracing for the incoming major downfall: most of the patents that keep them the best search engine are expiring in a couple of years. Bing is eager to take them down and once those patents are no more it's easily going to. Not just by sheer financial ownage (MS $109 billion, G $58 billion) but also due to the fact that G's only real income is from being a middleman - something which can never be self sustainable.
The total value of a company has nothing to do with how successful it'll be. If it were simply a case of the company worth the most money wins then playing the stockmarket long term would be a pretty easy proposition.
For starters the total value of the company isn't liquid. You might have a company worth 10 bil and another worth 2 bil but the one with 2 bil has 2x more liquid assets and 10x the cashflow. Facebook was worth a huge amount BEFORE it started to monetize.
The primary reason that Google is so good is because of its engineers. Google is *the* best place to work on earth if you're an engineer bar none. The benefits to being an engineer at google are enormous. Money, creative freedom, like-minded peers, an understanding of what an engineer is about, the list goes on.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that the best engineers are not in the slightest bit motivated by money. Engineers spend their entire 7 days a week working on problems because to them that is fun. They don't need money because they're already doing what they want to do in life. What they do want is an environment that they can enjoy their trade in optimum conditions. I know this from personal experience and I've tried to hire some VERY talented engineers myself and it's VERY hard because marketing projects just don't interest them.
For that reason Google will continue to attract the best engineers and produce the best technical products.
Look at how google tend to fail with social things. They don't have great social thinkers. Facebook on the other hand do, but their technical team isn't quite up to the standard of google. You can see this by how difficult it is to exploit google products compared with exploiting facebook with technical 'things'.
It's for those reasons above that I think google will continue to flourish in the technical areas. I don't think they'll beat facebook with their google plus, but it'll be an interesting battle that will result in innovation from both sides.
