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I've never heard anything good about Yahoo's ethics, but I've heard plenty of bad things from the tech press. Wikipedia is a pretty good place to start: http://

I've never heard anything good about Yahoo's ethics, but I've heard plenty of bad things from the tech press. Wikipedia is a pretty good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!#Criticism_and_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!#Criticism_and_controvers.... I personally know developers that choose alternatives to Yahoo whenever possible for ethical reasons. I personally know people who refuse to work for Yahoo for ethical reasons. Are there a statistically significant number? I don't know. But, I've never heard anybody claim that Yahoo is on any kind of ethical high ground either. Of course 99.9% of the people at Yahoo! are great people. But, historically, the company's top management has failed ethically in very important cases. And, their official policy (marketing message) on ethics is weak. Google's marketing message on ethics is much stronger. Keep in mind that while I think Google is seen as a more ethical company, I am not saying that one company actually is better than the other. I'm only talking about perception and the marketing messages that each company has put out.

nostrademons 17y ago
But you hear bad things about nearly everything from the tech press. That's their job: to hold your attention so they can sell advertising space. Negative news grabs your attention more than positive news, so that's what the press reports. And indignant moral outrage over the latest nefarious corporate goings-on sells more papers(/banner ads) than anything else, so that's what they report on. In basically every organization I've worked for/with/in (except the financial industry), the truth is basically 10-100x more benign than the media reports it as. So unless you have personal experience with people in Yahoo or Google that make you not trust them, don't believe everything you read in the media.

nostrademons 17y ago

But you hear bad things about nearly everything from the tech press. That's their job: to hold your attention so they can sell advertising space. Negative news grabs your attention more than positive news, so that's what the press reports. And indignant moral outrage over the latest nefarious corporate goings-on sells more papers(/banner ads) than anything else, so that's what they report on. In basically every organization I've worked for/with/in (except the financial industry), the truth is basically 10-100x more benign than the media reports it as. So unless you have personal experience with people in Yahoo or Google that make you not trust them, don't believe everything you read in the media.