Which brings us back to that narrative, one overlooking a fundamental truth: Google is no desperate whale when it comes to software.

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Of course, we rarely get to find out whether the theory has any truth or is nothing more than a fanciful narrative created by someone with too much time on their hands.

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The dominant narrative of the Tea Party as an extremist fringe group isolated from the American mainstream is distant from the truth.

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