Google Invests in Genomics Firm

In the news today:

Google Inc. has taken a small stake in a biotech company that was co-founded by the wife of Sergey Brin

It has invested $3.9 million in the company, called 23andMe Inc., giving it a minority stake in the start-up.

23andMe is a privately held company that promises to help consumers understand and browse their own genetic information.

This raises two interesting questions:

1) Would Google be interested in this if it wasn't associated with Brin's new wife?
2) Google's mission is to make information accessable - will they one day tell us that everything in the universe is information, so therefore they will invest in anything?