My prediction: By 2026, Google’s main product will not be search but AI.

Yahoo and many internet sites think of themselves as an end. Google sees itself as a means.

Wir sind überzeugt, dass Portale wie Google, Facebook, Amazon und Apple weitaus mächtiger sind, als die meisten Menschen ahnen. Ihre Macht beruht auf der Fähigkeit, exponentiell zu wachsen. Mit Ausnahme von biologischen Viren gibt es nichts, was sich mit derartiger Geschwindigkeit, Effizienz und Aggressivität ausbreitet wie diese Technologieplattformen, und dies verleiht auch ihren Machern, Eigentümern und Nutzern neue Macht.

The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is problematic not only because of vandalism or fabrication of data. It is also problematic because of the often unknown origin of the basic texts than adapted by the authors' collective of net users. In some reported cases already the very first version of a Wikipedia entry was plagiarised, often copied nearly verbatim without the use of much "brain power" from an older print source. Some of these cases are precisely described in [Weber 2005b] and [Weber 2007a, 27 ff.]. We have to state that there is a systematic source problem in Wikipedia, because the problem of plagiarism was ignored too long, and is still being ignored.