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Surprised they still have this page on their site: > https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ > 1. Focus on
by rwmj 5mo ago
Surprised they still have this page on their site:
> https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/ https://about.google/company-info/philosophy/
> 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
> 6. You can make money without doing evil.
- userbinator 5mo agoArchive it before they memoryhole it.
- pndy 5mo agoYeah I'd expect someone here will note it and page will get a "deserved" update
- throwawayqqq11 5mo agoGoogle only moves fast and breaks things that matter. Their sunsetting of manifest v2 appears fast to me and updating some corporate philosophy has apparently no business impact.
- geysersam 5mo agoHah > 6. You can make money without doing evil implies that they're doing it for fun then I guess?
- NoMoreNicksLeft 5mo agoOr obligation.
- kibibu 5mo agoTechnically, you can make money without doing evil.
- mrandish 5mo agoI heard they actually changed to this wording from the original, which for a long time was "Don't be evil." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
- ChoGGi 5mo agoYou heard? It was a fairly big controversy when they did get around to removing it.
- mrandish 5mo agoYep, I remember seeing the headline. I clicked in, read the sub-head and first few sentences, hit the back button, and moved on, having duly noted the passing of one more milestone in Google's long descent. The reasons why it sucks, why they eventually did it and the vague, implausible PR justifications for doing it were all self-derivable from the headline and sub-head. I doubt I missed anything of significant substance, but didn't want to assert factual knowledge, so I just linked the Wikipedia article (which I also didn't read into). Don't interpret my skipping the rumination step with excusing or dismissing Google's decline. I don't need to rubber-neck every step of a slow-mo, multi-year train wreck to lament that it happened and update my priors regarding Google.
- yread 5mo agoyou make some money without doing evil and some more in other ways
- out_of_protocol 5mo ago> 6. You can make money without doing evil. You can but well, it's more profitable the other way around....
- eloisant 5mo ago"You can make money without doing evil [but that's not what we do]"
- speedgoose 5mo ago> You can make money without doing evil. Neat! I rate this sentence at 7/10 on my scale of shit American companies say. The top score is currently held by Palantir with their X bio "Software that dominates."
- dbbk 5mo agoWhat is evil about this?
- subscribed 5mo agoSee if you can raise it as an issue. There's clearly a grave errors on the page.
- rwmj 5mo agoI was thinking to cynically ask a Googler I know to raise an internal ticket. The new page could be just: 1. Stop asking pesky questions. 2. Add Gemini buttons into everything. 3. If problems, see 1.