Re: 11 ways Google is Evil!

Troop — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:44:07 GMT

Lets see...

1. Yeah, it does. A valid point.

2. A valid (and somewhat alarming) point.

3. Yeah, okay, but who says that's a bad thing? Maybe it benefits us all that we're all on the same corner of the internet (as censored as it may be), and that certainly wouldn't happen without Google giving in to China.

4. Yeah, true. A valid point.

5. This is the most alarming point of all...

6. I'd need more information on the situation to judge whether this was the correct thing to do or not (of if it's 'evil' or not).

7. How dare they archive my internets! Definitely evil.

8. Yeah, but hasn't precious information always been behind a pay-wall? Plus, I think the internet helps do the opposite.

9. Yeah, they do. A valid point.

10. Loyalty? They switched from a neutral side to their own side, wouldn't anyone else do the same?

11. The most successful search engine in the world is arrogant?! No way! That's completely unbelievable. What an outrage. How dare they be arrogant!...but that sarcasm doesn't mean it's not evil ;).

11 ways Google is Evil!

ParaDOX — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:25:24 GMT

Found this article and slideshow on the CIO Insight site interesting and enlightening. And people thought Microsoft was the Evil one...

Case Studies Slideshow:
Eleven Ways Google is Evil <--Click

by Edward Cone

"Don't be Evil" is Google's motto. How's that going?

In this context, "evil" does not mean wicked, like Sauron or Voldemort, or bad in the way some people might judge tobacco companies or corrupt enterprises like Enron.

Nick Carr probably got it right when he said, "When Google adopted 'don't be evil' as the cornerstone of its corporate code of conduct, what it really meant was 'don't be Microsoft.'" This does not imply that Microsoft is truly evil, just that Google was defining itself against the most powerful company in the software industry at that time — a company that was feared but not loved.

So "don't be evil" translates roughly as "be customer-centric, and act with some greater good than your profit margins in mind — don't be just another huge company." By that standard, it's grown harder over time to argue that Google lives up to its motto. It is a useful and valuable and in many ways admirable enterprise, but maybe not so special after all.

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11 ways Google is Evil!