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>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 ago
  Lol, 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 ago
    Well, 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.