Now if you have the engine of the whole world slowing down and you have continued problems in Europe, and you have the first year of the Presidential cycle, which will likely to cool down the U.S., and you have this miserable fiscal cliff problem.

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And the man making this all possible, literally, the single engine, the piston that's driving this whole operation of making sure that we don't walk away from our cities, we don't walk away from this recovery, we don't -- we take the chances we're taking to generate growth here, is a man who came from a big city himself.

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But we think that runs counter to the whole spirit of openness that has made the Internet such a powerful engine for not only economic growth, but also for the generation of ideas and creativity.

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Sullivan says the search engine is so popular and so profitable, it can rattle whole industries almost by accident.

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