Memo to Google’s Gods … welcome to the world you created

You may have heard of Google’s creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They started what is thought of as the world’s greatest business model and have become among the world’s richest men.
And they did it by making information available. All information, whether you want it out there or not.
That’s Google. It’s a verb now. Everyone’s been “Googled.”
And one of Google’s top executives tried to go behind the scenes and sabatoge the funding for a consumer group called Consumer Watchdog that was critical of Google’s lack of privacy safeguards. Bob Boorstin, Google’s Director of Corporate and Policy Communications, recently wrote to the Rose Foundation that funds Consumer Watchdog and complained. The watchdog group charged that Google was lobbying to weaken the current prohibition on the sale of medical records.
To Google, no information is private.
That is, unless it’s about the Google founders. Then they aren’t too fond when people start to pull back the cover on their own operations.
Google’s Page and Brin filed suit against the designer of their own party jet. Appears, he was giving out too many details on what was going in the jet – things such as a king-size California bed, hammocks and a custom sofa that the Google Guys ended up spending a hell of a lot of time testing. A similar sofa was hauled into their offices so they could test it out and give comments.
Well, Google won it court in 2006 and silenced the designer.
Dudes. It’s a fucking sofa. Talk about control freaks.