That's just plain naiveness of you! Of course Google cares about money. They are just smart enough to believe that more money will flow through satisfied users. What I mean is, that while MS is using vendor lock-ins and other dirty corporate trickery, Google are just creating good products.

I am at a constant fear that Google will go bankrupt in the future because of this belief of theirs. I mean, as much as they're trying to do good, MS is using said corporate bullshit to lull users into buying more things from them, and the big G is already entering a monopolized world, and even though they successfuly penetrated it, it's going to be a tough time for them to maintain that position. Just look at the progressive genre of music - it's great, complex, endearing music, but it's losing out to corporate pop (which I have nothing against).

Of course Google care about money. And yes, I'm sure there are some high-ranking Googleplexers that are greedy for a higher pay-check - but they're just being smart about their customer service.

I think that most of us cut Google a lot of slack because we, the users, don't pay them for the things that we use (e-mail, Web space, et cetera). Typically, at least for me, I can just say, "Well, it's free, so I can't complain" when something goes wrong.

Besides: Google fixed the coding problem very quickly, which leads me to believe that they're not trying to screw us over even if we *aren't* paying customers.