# One-way mirror policy to protect startups from prying eyes.
"We can look into Google, but Google can’t look into the companies without asking," promises Miner.
and then they say:
# But that doesn’t mean strategic considerations will be ignored either.
"If a company comes in the door and it looks like something important for Google to acquire," says Maris,
"we will defer to Google’s corporate development department to take a look."
So pretty much Google won't look at your startup, unless the guys running things get the idea that what you are doing might be interesting to Google, so how exactly does that protect startups from Google getting a full look about your company?
There seems to be many ways that this could work. One is asking the company if their information can be passed on to the corporate development department. Another is simply telling the department a very limited amount of information, e.g., "I think you might want to look into acquiring newTechStartup.com", and no more.
surely if Google is looking to acquire they won't be interested in copying it?
And Google can always have a full look at your company - by approaching it for acquisition. It seems like a moot point, honestly - Google isn't exactly short of people with great ideas.
