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Can anyone tell me how many things in this list are about a "level playing field" or "do no evil". If Apple or MS did even half of the things in this list, peop
by jfuhrman 12y ago
Can anyone tell me how many things in this list are about a "level playing field" or "do no evil". If Apple or MS did even half of the things in this list, people would be screaming about it from rooftops a couple of decades later, but as Assange noted, Google seems to get a free pass.
Most of the Google search page area is now occupied by ads, or ads disguised as content
http://searchengineland.com/google-results-too-ad-heavy-166226 http://searchengineland.com/google-results-too-ad-heavy-1662...
Profiting off adware ads for downloads
http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/08/15/firefox_dodgy_download.jpg http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/08/15/firefox_dodgy_download.jpg
Decreasing contrast in the background of ads, this especially hurts older people as ability to see contrast decreases with age, and the FTC found that almost half the people fail to notice that there are ads on the page, thus forcing products that are first in the organic results to pay Google for ads.
http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-itor-maybe-not/ http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-itor-maybe-not/
http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentionally-trying-to-minimize-the-fact-that-these-are-ads/ http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-is-deceptive.html/?a=viewall http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-i...
Tracking the emails in the free Google Apps for Education and even paid Google Apps for Business to build ad profiles, making misleading statements to the public that they're not doing so, and then when it finally came to having to make statements to federal court, having to tell the truth about it and then claiming the consumer Gmail policy applied to Apps for Education data.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht...
Paid inclusion for shopping search results
http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embraces-paid-inclusion-13138 http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrace...
Ranking Google+ reviews over Yelp results even if the user explicitly searches for Yelp
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-google-local-listings/111539/ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-...
Conspiring to kill SkyHook(and succeeding) with its 500lb outsized influence like Microsoft used to, in order to gather wifi & user location data.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-lawsuit-motorola-Samsung http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...
Getting fined by FTC for violating Gmail users privacy by exposing their friends lists in Google Buzz in order to compete with Twitter
http://www.netcompetition.org/antitrust/why-ftcs-22-5m-google-privacy-fine-is-faux-accountability http://www.netcompetition.org/antitrust/why-ftcs-22-5m-googl...
Tracking the physical location of Android phones for ad purposes without properly informing users and disabling things like Google Now if you disable the tracking.
http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/ http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/
http://www.datadrivenbusiness.com/google-quietly-testing-offline-store-visits-tracking http://www.datadrivenbusiness.com/google-quietly-testing-off...
Google employee accesses personal information of others. Google says it has fixed the issue, but how do we even know? Is there any legal safeguard against someone at Google reading your email?
http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
Tying Android App store to having Google search engine as default on Android, ensuring that alternative search engines cannot be shipped as default.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/12/documents-shed-light-on-google-rules-for-android/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/12/documents-shed-light-...
Stopping Acer from shipping Aliyun OS by threatening to pull the Play Store and Android beta access. Bonus points for enforcing this by the duplicitous moniker 'Open Handset Alliance' doublespeak
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/report-google-threatened-acer-forced-it-to-dump-rival-os/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/report-google-threate...
Making people literally cry with the forced Google+ integration into Youtube and making confusing UX to make people share more than they want to, in order to compete with Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs (warning, NSFW language)
Extracting petty revenge on CNET for googling(!) information on its CEO
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/ http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/
Convicted in the courts for colluding with other tech firms in illegal non-poaching agreements
http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-fixing-cartel-involved-dozens-more-companies-over-one-million-employees/ http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-...
- gregpilling 12y agoThanks for the list, was it researched today or is this an ongoing passion of yours?
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- jacquesm 12y agoGiven the 6 hours between the article's appearance and the list here I figure the best bet is on the research being done today.
- yuhong 12y agoI think most of these are probably pretty weak, but I have ranted about the contrast one before and tested it myself on my own laptop. I think they finally changed it. And I suggested admission of wrongdoing in the employee poaching fiasco too.