Google makes profit off of target advertising and their support...their 'THINK TANK' is quite popular. You pay them to solve a questions, very good idea..
But their are ways to do everything on the net now-days, and I completely agree with you there, but google does distribute microsoft IE software

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Anyhow, nothing to worry about. Great company. Oh BTW, they have a live query viewer in their offices, so watch what you search for, someone could be watching. :blink: LOL