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Google has sucked as a company from the very beginning. Not necessarily the technology, but the founders and the culture. How many of you remember back in 2005
by ot1138 3y ago
Google has sucked as a company from the very beginning. Not necessarily the technology, but the founders and the culture.
How many of you remember back in 2005 or so, when the first lawsuit for delisting was brought against Google by a small business owner? The Google attorney showed up with a complete history of this person's searches and proceeded to demean him in court.
Probably not many of you, because Google buried the story. Today it can't be found (I can't anyway). It was written about in a highly critical book of Google a few years later.
Think Reddit's API story is bad? Google did the same thing back in 2010-2012, slowly tightening the clamps on anyone monitoring them to put them out of business. My company was saved by a call from a famous billionaire to Matt Cuts, after which our little problem promptly disappeared.
- Capricorn2481 3y agoWell at least link the book
- ot1138 3y agoI believe it's "Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google" by Scott Cleland but I haven't read the book in years (and I'm not about to buy another one). The reason I remember this is because I wrote three books about Google, and I was sorely tempted to include the story but my publisher decided it would wiser to not include it.