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She walked out for good. Gotta admire her integrity! Also this from her post just hits the nail on the head: > [Google leadership] are talking to everyone wh

She walked out for good. Gotta admire her integrity! Also this from her post just hits the nail on the head: > [Google leadership] are talking to everyone who thought my story sounded familiar, anyone who’s been Through It in some form: pushed out or punished for speaking up, gaslit, discriminated against, isolated, harassed. People are telling each other their stories. Refusing to acknowledge our humanity and engage with the deeper issues being raised - well, that's not very Googley. 'Nuff said. Google is going to have serious problems in the future unless they start addressing the obvious flaws in their company culture - their vulnerability to upstarts and competitors can only increase going forward!

paul7986 7y ago
Their arrogance and ignorance is already affecting them as many people I know no longer use Google search. Also check out DuckDuckGo on Alexa ... its now the 100th most popular site in the US and continues to increase its reach; 167 globally. Love to get away fully from Google myself! They are horrible and personally their arrogance and ignorance is catching up to them!
- rstuart4133 7y ago
  > Their arrogance and ignorance is already affecting them as many people I know no longer use Google search. You're kidding yourself. Those people you know who are switching are having no material effect whatsoever: http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share If anything, their market share is going up.
  - paul7986 7y ago
    Google won't be the same company in a few years or so! They are no longer the same company (not run or driven by it's founder's ethos)... most recently saying they will block ad blockers. Apple is all in on privacy ...Apple is as big or bigger then Google and makes it's money off of hardware & software not invasive/intrusive ads. Those who ride their same wave will no doubt see huge and or continued success! Check back on that counter in a few years! It will be a different story I guarantee you!
- chrshawkes 7y ago
  The only problem is Duck Duck Go and every other search engine sucks ass compared to Google. Even DDG has turned to Bing (which sucks) for their searches.
  - paul7986 7y ago
    It must not suck if more and more are using it and talking about it. I use to bang google fairly frequently when I first started using it but my use of that command has become a lot less; now 10 to 20 percent of the time. I don’t hear ppl talking about Bing. Also I hear people talking about privacy including Apple. It’s now seems to be apart of their branding and those who are on the same bandwagon I’m sure will find continued success.
gamblor956 7y ago
I forwarded this story to my HR department with the suggestion that we find a way to expedite our company's transition away from GSuite. I've been using GSuite (and Gmail) since they launched, so when even a long-term user thinks Google isn't worth it anymore--to the point of actively evangelizing against the use of Google services--Google's got serious issues. If they can't resolve this soon, they'll be the new IBM. IBM was able to survive because nobody got fired for using IBM. But Google doesn't make anything integral to business: search is a pale shadow of what it used to be; GSuite is still just a dumbed-down 365 wannabe, and none of Google's other products are kept around long enough even if successful to justify any sort of personal or business investment in them.
- utopcell 7y ago
  I don't know what is more hilarious: the fact that you would pass judgement on a ~$1TN company based on the experience of a disgruntled employee [1], or that HR makes technical decisions in your company. [1] mind you, I feel Claire is honest in upholding her views and doesn't have an agenda.
  - gamblor956 7y ago
    1) In my company, IT is organized under HR. Also, in most companies, IT exists to implement the technical needs of the rest of the company, not to decide what tech the rest of the company uses. 2) I get to pass judgments on Google because I'm a customer and I'm voting with my wallet, and because in the nearly 2 decades that I've been a customer they've gone from being a bastion of idealism and representing the possibility of the internet to being one of the fundamental problems. They're very close to embracing "be evil" as a motto. 3) Google's not going to be a $1 trillion company for long if it keeps this shit up. People vote with their wallets.
    - itronitron 7y ago
      A big part of the problem is probably that the people that could force a change, the ones in power, view Google as an income stream for themselves, and since they have already accumulated a lot of personal wealth aren't particularly concerned with it slowly running out.

paul7986 7y ago

Their arrogance and ignorance is already affecting them as many people I know no longer use Google search. Also check out DuckDuckGo on Alexa ... its now the 100th most popular site in the US and continues to increase its reach; 167 globally. Love to get away fully from Google myself! They are horrible and personally their arrogance and ignorance is catching up to them!

rstuart4133 7y ago
> Their arrogance and ignorance is already affecting them as many people I know no longer use Google search. You're kidding yourself. Those people you know who are switching are having no material effect whatsoever: http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share If anything, their market share is going up.
- paul7986 7y ago
  Google won't be the same company in a few years or so! They are no longer the same company (not run or driven by it's founder's ethos)... most recently saying they will block ad blockers. Apple is all in on privacy ...Apple is as big or bigger then Google and makes it's money off of hardware & software not invasive/intrusive ads. Those who ride their same wave will no doubt see huge and or continued success! Check back on that counter in a few years! It will be a different story I guarantee you!
chrshawkes 7y ago
The only problem is Duck Duck Go and every other search engine sucks ass compared to Google. Even DDG has turned to Bing (which sucks) for their searches.
- paul7986 7y ago
  It must not suck if more and more are using it and talking about it. I use to bang google fairly frequently when I first started using it but my use of that command has become a lot less; now 10 to 20 percent of the time. I don’t hear ppl talking about Bing. Also I hear people talking about privacy including Apple. It’s now seems to be apart of their branding and those who are on the same bandwagon I’m sure will find continued success.

gamblor956 7y ago

I forwarded this story to my HR department with the suggestion that we find a way to expedite our company's transition away from GSuite. I've been using GSuite (and Gmail) since they launched, so when even a long-term user thinks Google isn't worth it anymore--to the point of actively evangelizing against the use of Google services--Google's got serious issues. If they can't resolve this soon, they'll be the new IBM. IBM was able to survive because nobody got fired for using IBM. But Google doesn't make anything integral to business: search is a pale shadow of what it used to be; GSuite is still just a dumbed-down 365 wannabe, and none of Google's other products are kept around long enough even if successful to justify any sort of personal or business investment in them.

utopcell 7y ago
I don't know what is more hilarious: the fact that you would pass judgement on a ~$1TN company based on the experience of a disgruntled employee [1], or that HR makes technical decisions in your company. [1] mind you, I feel Claire is honest in upholding her views and doesn't have an agenda.
- gamblor956 7y ago
  1) In my company, IT is organized under HR. Also, in most companies, IT exists to implement the technical needs of the rest of the company, not to decide what tech the rest of the company uses. 2) I get to pass judgments on Google because I'm a customer and I'm voting with my wallet, and because in the nearly 2 decades that I've been a customer they've gone from being a bastion of idealism and representing the possibility of the internet to being one of the fundamental problems. They're very close to embracing "be evil" as a motto. 3) Google's not going to be a $1 trillion company for long if it keeps this shit up. People vote with their wallets.
  - itronitron 7y ago
    A big part of the problem is probably that the people that could force a change, the ones in power, view Google as an income stream for themselves, and since they have already accumulated a lot of personal wealth aren't particularly concerned with it slowly running out.