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Googolopoly instead of Monopoly

Google is a dangerously funny Company – young, colorful and very liberal, almost a harlequin Ikea-Kindergarden for adults. One could even call it a playground – a description that can be found on Google’s page labs.google.com: “Google’s technology playground.”

It is almost logical that this playground in Mountain View is inspiring to even those that do not live in the Lego-colored flower-power-paradise: The website Box.net recently launched a new version of Monopoly called Googolopoly because: „we often come to the conclusion that Google’s way to do business with other companies and interest in controlling the information age makes the company look more and more like the software monopoly of yesteryears. Overall, it’s questionable whether such a powerful position made the world better or worse.“ More and more people arrive at the same question – is Google’s power (some even say it is a monopoly) good for the world? I say: NO!
Googolopoly
With “Googolopoly”, which is available here, one can explore the world of the powerful people behind Google and learn to play with the properties of the Internet. The goal of the game, as explained by Box.net, is to acquire a large number of companies without ending up in the Deadpools in the corners of the playing field. You have to work like Google – quickly eat all start-ups before they become dangerous to your business model. Google is a datamine, a monster, a Googzilla….

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