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True. It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search. That said Google shifted priorities from Search to Empire Defense m
by hos234 7y ago
True. It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search.
That said Google shifted priorities from Search to Empire Defense many many years ago. And that has had many unintended "evil" consequences on Society well documented by Tristan Harris, Tim Wu, Jaron Lanier et al.
Could they have avoided that path of empire defense, as they grew in size and survived, I don't think so. Few companies or empires have. The golden age of Greeks or Persians or Indians would have lasted much longer if they knew how to defend their empires.
Now that they have successfully survived and own the market and have cash in the bank, what they do with their empire is going to be interesting. Reviving a golden age takes vision not just empire defense.
- thecleaner 7y ago> True. It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search. Even reading this line is horrifying. I don't even want to think about this possibility.
- la_barba 7y ago>It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search. Why would that be any different?
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y agoLol, in my personal evil ranking, Rupert Murdoch is certainly Top 10. Larry Ellison is a greedy jerk too. But at least he‘s content in being jealous of Google, Amazon and Microsoft and stops short of keeping a harmful conservative media empire alive. As far as I know.
- la_barba 7y agoWell, okay you don't like their politics, but I was talking about money. It doesn't seem like Google is passing up any opportunities for making money. People might be tempted to think that they could be much more evil, sure, any company could, but you end up killing the golden goose. With google the goose is public trust, and they are clearly stretching whatever trust they have left. I wonder how many Google employees actually believe that ads are anything but an annoyance that nobody wants, or even that what they're doing is ethical.