about the company from an analysis of its key patents. These patents
are often difficult to discover, since Google rarely files under the
Google name; an exhaustive hunt of some of the key Google technical
staff is required in order to unearth many of the patents held by
Google. "I have a keen awareness of Google's transformation from a
search company to a digital Exxon or Wal*Mart," writes Stephen Arnold
in the current study. "These are companies that operate at a scale
that their competitors cannot easily match. If Google can continue its
upward trajectory, it will emerge as a genetic variant of the
multi-national corporation or what I call a supra-national
enterprise."
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