The internet began its life as a private computer network for military operations. It didn't go public until the late 1980s. Over the last 30 years, it has been developed into a global network space that, at least from a legal standpoint, nobody owns. But from a practical standpoint, Google owns the internet. The evidence is all around us. We can look at statistics and easily determine that Google is the world's number one search engine. Then we can look at all of the internet properties they own in addition to their search engine, properties like YouTube and Blogger. They even own a fair number of the major web development tools used by developers to create websites. If that's not enough evidence, here is the final piece that puts the case to rest: the whole online world knows how ...
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