About Google... or actually what

Interesting story about Google in today's Helsingin Sanomat. The story was about how "Tiny and harmless Google has become scaringly strong company" which "Is feared by both many small and huge competitors to be spreading to new areas like a locust cloud." Nothing new really actually.

However, there was a particular sentence which made me think again. Google is supposedly still following something which many companies seem to be thingking is the worst thing one can do - "Engineers first think how a problem could be solved. Only later, if ever, they start thinking how the invention could be used to make money.".
It seems that most of the companies nowadays are increasignly obsessed with the opposite - "Looks neat but show me the money, where is the money"-attitude.
Maybe it's when the career inside dictates your actions more than the future in the outside world when the possibilities become "threads" and "minimal risk to fail" becomes the key criteria to enter anything ? Maybe it's always easier to say no the new uncertain things when the future of your career inside of the company is the only thing to worry... or maybe not.

Google is claimed to be still thinking that "Money will flow in as long as the idea is good." -Maybe this is the rule for the ones with real eye and guts for making things happen.... or maybe not.


Maybe... or not.