For a blog that claims to be anti-nihilist, the entire piece seems to be promoting the very nihilist idea that there's no "true altruism", and taking a hardline

For a blog that claims to be anti-nihilist, the entire piece seems to be promoting the very nihilist idea that there's no "true altruism", and taking a hardline stance on a very win-win situtation. Yes, Google gets something out of training you to use Google Products. They are a very big company. That doesn't mean it's not a fair exchange. Most of their rhetoric is about painting google as a monopoly, but they offer no evidence. They talk about the mealiness of the offering, but registration limits on free classes are hardly unreasonable. Full disclosure: I am an ex-googler who's currently quite pissed at the company.