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> In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization No, they're not. They just have bet
by victords 6y ago
> In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization
No, they're not.
They just have better PR. They're both for profit companies with their share of controversies, but Google just has better PR.
- henearkr 6y agoPR is different from what the employees see from within. Moreover, Google supported its "responsible" positions by carbon-neutral engagement, retracting from Chinese market, stopping mining email data, and more. I don't really understand why you would describe this as PR, if so then every decision is PR, and in this case "good PR" would amount to "good decisions" and I'm fine with that but not with the pejorative stench of the word PR (and because for most people it does not mean "decision").
- facebookbadfru 6y agoFacebook ticks all of those? It's banned on china. https://sustainability.fb.com/ https://sustainability.fb.com/ No proof on privacy issues but certainly neither seem saint. Any other concrete examples?
- henearkr 6y agoThat's good to hear. It seems to me that FB is still a little short on ecological engagements. At least, compared to Google. So, room for improvement. About privacy concerns, for example: FB is not guaranteeing anything about not mining your private messages. What I find when googling it does not reassure me neither.
- bryan_w 6y agoFacebook's privacy policy spells out what they use as sources of data for ads and messages are not on that list.