Google's search innovation plan: gobble up startups
John Battelle dug up this gem that we missed from Om Malik's GigaOm show. Skip ahead to nine minutes in for Om's interview with Google's Marissa Mayer. Om's sidekick Joyce Kim starts it off by asking Mayer if she's worried about startup search engines challenging Google. Short answer: No. But impress us enough and we'll buy you. That's not evil, is it?