Senior Vice-President and Chief Legal Counsel David Drummond traveled to India and gave a
speech as part of a debate titled "What do we do about Google?" He prefaced his remarks by imploring the assembled newspaper publishers, "don't shoot, I come in peace." The Internet, with or without Google, offers newspapers new challenges. "If Google didn’t exist, would the industry be any better off than it is today?," he asked, before pausing "Don’t answer that just yet!" In a related effort to reach out to the news industry, our CEO Eric Schmidt published an
op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
