Googlezon? What about GooHoo!, GooAOL, GooSpace.....

-SHOMARI HINES Businessweek asks the question traditional media companies would probably skip around answering. The cover story takes a look at Google's growing influence and how it is leading the new media revolution. The article also touches back on a faux documentary posted to the Web in late 2004 by young journalists Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan. It's the year 2014, and Googlezon, a fearsomely powerful combination of search engine Google Inc. and online store Amazon.com Inc., has crushed traditional media to bits. Taking its place is the computer-generated Evolving Personalized Information Construct—an online package of news, entertainment, blogs, and services drawn from all the world's up-to-the-minute knowledge and customized to match your preferences. And it's all collected, packaged, and controlled by Googlezon. Is Google Too Powerful? [Businessweek]