The Register has an interesting compentary on an article that appeared in the New York Times, comparing Google to Microsoft in it’s early days.
Google is rapidly growing it’s core business from running a search engine, to including, well, everything else. This is what is worrying some industry analysts, as Google starts acquiring smaller companies to add to it’s portfolio and introducing more of it’s own technology innovations, it is becoming a technology juggernaut that could potentially devour everything in it’s path.