Sure, I usually like to believe the horses mouth than the horses a**, but lets be realistic for a second.
Google is a mega compnay. They did not get to where they are without fully understanding the world they are working within. All corporate professional successful companies know their competitors and know all the players in their space. So....
Firstly, GOOG know all about NEOM. I dont have to be an insider to feel confident that this is true.
Secondly, to say GOOG dismissed NEOM because one little blogger (no offense streetz) made NEOM the company look unprofessional. And they did so without studying up on the company, knowing what it has to offer, how it could be of benefit to GOOG's business, and most importantly, actually being professional enough themselves and confirming whether their alleged assumption that a person called Streetstylz actually represented NEOM in anyway........ I mean seriously Sean. And if you tell me that they did do the aforementioned research, then this debuffs your theory that GOOG dont know who NEOM are.
In summary, you either incorrect in one or both of the two assertions you make. Both cannot be correct.
Be this as it may, this is all semantics and heresay. The real discussion needs to be the validity of NEOMs IP across all of the aplpications that we think it applies to. In this respect, I am still considering some of your comments which I dont think are completely off base. None of us can really dismiss all of your comments just yet until we see proof of our own wishes and beliefs. Only NEOM can make that happen, and not a former employee of GOOG nor a would-be employee of NEOM.
My only advice is to believe things when they happen, and almost everything is possible until then. So come on IM, make them happen.