Google’s future: Doing the impossible

Google’s future: Doing the impossible:
Google's first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street expectations, aided by a lower tax rate and a research credit. Even though the stock moved on the numbers, it was what was said on the call that was most important. CEO Larry Page said on the conference call that it is his job to make sure that Google and its engineers are working on big, bold bets to not only advance the company and its earnings, but society as well. "A big part of my job is to get people to focus on things that are not just incremental," Page said during the earnings call. Google is working on ambitious projects, such as Google Fiber, self-driving cars and other projects like Google Glass "because no one else is crazy enough to try."

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