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Google Glass, I own one these days, it is a Head Mounted Display system that acts like Smartphone that you can attach on the Head. I wonder, what would it take to take that technological wonder into a dismal failure?

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So we all know that Yahoo has been mostly booming since acquiring the young search engine, Google. However not everyone knows that Google drove an incredibly high bargain for their acquisition (over $5 billion IIRC). What if Yahoo didn't acquire Google as they did IOTL? Would Google collapse...

What would Internet look like today? Where would giants like Youtube, Google, Facebook, etc. stand today? Would general user experience on the Internet be better or worse? What about privacy protection issues?

Yahoo and Google were both in the running to acquire Google in 2006. Apparently, Yahoo and Google executives met with Youtube's founders in a Denny's. Google won out in that meeting, mostly because: But what if, for some reason, YouTube's founders decide to go with Yahoo, and it is Yahoo, and...