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I feel like Google was respectable for a good amount of time after Sun vanished, though as of late they have lost any semblance of respectability.
by infotainment 2y ago
I feel like Google was respectable for a good amount of time after Sun vanished, though as of late they have lost any semblance of respectability.
- digitalsushi 2y agoif i had the ability to vastly influence what people read about me everyone would think i was pretty amazing too
- infotainment 2y agoI mean, that ability of Google hasn't changed. If anything, Google has more influence than it did in those days. And yet, their corporate image has taken a nosedive.
- solardev 2y agoIt wasn't like that in the early days. They were a scrappy garage outfit spawned from a couple of academic researchers, fighting against Yahoo and Altavista and the like. At its release, Google Search was a true technical marvel compared to its contemporaries. For another decade after that, they (through acquihire or in house development) revolutionized office suites, online mapping, aerial imagery, email, photo search, Android, web browsers... seemingly all at once. It wasn't until the last 8-10 years that they seeming stopped innovating and entered "hang on to our profits at any cost" mode and really increased the advertising spam everywhere.
- marssaxman 2y agoThe change seemed to come a few years earlier than that, by my reckoning; the launch of Google Plus was clearly a fear-driven reaction against the growth of Facebook, and that felt like a real departure from their previous attitude of sunny, generous optimism.
- invalidname 2y agoSchmidt was the former CTO of Sun and many early engineers at Google originated from Sun. I would argue that everything good in Google was Sun and as Schmidt left this started a process of fading away.