Quote Originally Posted by Tgo01 View Post
I think you're forgetting one major thing; Google thinks up ways to solve major problems while also making a buck.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25880738

Google X projects have many inspirations and many starting points. But Mr Teller says not one of them has started from the conventional business question: "How can we make a tonne of money?" That is, he explains, because these ideas are about huge, transformative, disruptive change, not the marginal, incremental change of a conventional business.