Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t say all that much in a new Information Week interview, but he provides some interesting hints about the company’s plans for expanding in the business market. One thing that’s clear is that Google has a very different economic model than most other IT firms. Referring to the company’s current desktop and network search tools for businesses, Schmidt says, “It makes perfect sense to me that you should do this even if you weren’t making money, which is not the case … You would be willing to lose money in this business for the strategic leverage that it gets you to reach those customers. They are the power users.” Google’s success hinges on being the primary information-delivery service for people, and that means it needs to be as ubiquitous in the office as in the home. In pursuit of that strategy, it will happily sell for cheap – or give away – stuff that competitors charge dearly for. If you’re one of those competitors, you may want to keep one eye open while sleeping.