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Google's fate -- the 100-word version

"Google's Search Party," Ken Auletta's 6,264-word opus on the search engine's grudging embrace of D.C. lobbying, has proved tough to condense. Until I reread it again this weekend, and realized it can be boiled down to the final observation made by CEO Eric Schmidt:

What kills a company is not competition but arrogance. We control our fate.
Control fate, or tempt it? Google, improbably, is managing to do both.

10:57 PM on Sun Jan 13 2008
By Owen Thomas
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