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This is a Google product. It is constantly snooping around the Web, and snapping up any good stuff it finds there. It then uses it internally and makes it available for anyone else to use.

This is what made Google the leader of the pack, of some fast-running dogs.

Compare it to Microsoft's position in Is Microsoft Being Weighed Down By the Ghosts of Its Past?

The Software industry is unusual and is helping us escape from the Industrial Revolution of our past.