As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I recently attended a conference in Las Vegas, which featured lots of sessions on Internet-related technologies. I won’t bore you with all the details, except to say that Google was the talk of the conference. Not surprising really, since the company has had a major impact on the way we use computers and the Internet since its founding in 1998. Google dominates the U.S. online search market, but that’s just the tip of what the company does. From email (Gmail) and photo sharing (Picasa) to a mobile phone operating system (Android)...