Google, Standing Tall in the Economic Crisis [Slideshow]

According to the December 2nd report of TechCrunch France, the French high-tech advisory company in Paris, FaberNovel, recently released an investigative report titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Google but Were Afraid to Ask." The report explores why Google remains resilient despite the global economy heading into a recession. A glance around shows that Google's peers aren't as fortunate: veteran portal Yahoo! is facing acquisition, and Europe's Lycos will be shutting down its site. Below are the fourteen major questions answered in the report:

1. Why does Google not understand what an economic crisis is?

2. How has Google changed the mobile world?

3. Why isn't YouTube a portal?

4. Why does Microsoft fear Google?

5. Why does Google want to challenge Facebook?

6. Why does Google want to buy satellites?

7. How does Google purchase traffic?

8. Why does Google want to buy DoubleClick?

9. Why are Google's services free?

10. Why does Google want to develop an Open Source platform?

11. Why does Google invest in offline advertising?

12. Why does Google take away our voice?

13. Why isn't PR a real competitive index?

14. How does Google optimize advertisements into useful information?