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38 Reasons the Google IPO Isn't the Big Deal Some Are Making It Out to Be

Many things may be "up" more than Google.

None of them has changed the world as Google has. Google's success, technological and financial, is important precisely because its what our system is _supposed_ to do well: encourage and finance disruptive technologies, even when they gore the ox of the establishment.

That's the "creative destruction" of capitalism, so often honored in the breach . . . we honor Google because its the way it _should_ be, even if its not the way that it always is.