Being frank, I think you have an ideological position which is both satisfyingly consistent ('google is evil and always has been') and which provides a mechanis

Being frank, I think you have an ideological position which is both satisfyingly consistent ('google is evil and always has been') and which provides a mechanism to discount any contrary facts ('you were just boots on the ground and didn't understand the corporation as well as I, being an enlightened person, did'). But I was actually there, and while I can't tell you any of the many times I saw Google do the right thing when it hurt its bottom line I can tell you that I saw it happen a lot and in big ways. You don't have to believe me, poor little deluded cog that I am, but I think I will take my messy, complicated, first person understanding of the place over the reductive ideology any day.