This could also be titled, “How Larry Page is starting to run Google more like Steve Jobs would.” Google has operated in many ways like Microsoft and other tech companies that are going after a bunch of things at once. It worked for them better than most, but there were still too many failures and distractions to keep the company from achieving its goals. Things have changed with Larry Page at the helm and as a result, the company seems more focused. It seems more like Apple. The latest addition to the Google feature list is Instant Pages for Chrome. The concept is very simple – when a user does a search…

Over the past few weeks, some changes at Google and some comments from its CEO have gotten me thinking about the effect the company is having on culture. Now, to be clear, I am not part of that group of people – Nick Carr, Andrew Keen or Evgeny Morozov – who feel that the internet is ruining things. Quite to the contrary, I’m very optimistic about the promise of new technology to make the world better and fairer. But some of what Google is doing these days is making me wonder whether large tech corporations are the ones to lead us into the future. Google Wants Our Brains Why? Well first was Eric Schmidt’s comments…