Google wants to save the world: "Google Inc, not content with successfully making the internet a more useful information hub, has set an even loftier goal for itself: to create a foundation to tackle 'the largest problems of the world.'

"With a thriving enterprise driving such altruism, Google could become one of the big-time do-gooders in the world of corporate philanthropy. But, unlike the Rockefellers, Fords, Carnegies and others who first exploited industrial upheaval with new products and services, then turned to giving, Google is starting out with a different corporate ethos—captured in its 'don't be evil' mantra."A