Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008?

Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps? Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are most deserving.

Google Guys (Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page)

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Pro: The company continues to thwart all search competitors, and the Google Phone is the Gadget of the Year. It supports neat applications like encyclopedias and guitar teaching tools.

Con: They're human: stock is down 58% in '08. The proposed search advertising partnership deal with Yahoo broke up under regulatory objections. As for the app that's supposed to stop drunken emails... let's just say I now have a lot of former friends. Make the math harder!

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