Maybe I'm just too cynical, but now, after Google went from "Do no evil" to "Must accommodate the Communist Chinese government so we can make beaucoup bucks," I look at Google's snapping up of YouTube and see an acquisitive public corporation that is largely out to own things, a corporate model in the internet computing world that Microsoft has pioneered to such notorious repute.

"This is the next step in the evolution of the Internet," Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said during a conference call Monday.