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so when any other company does something like this, we cry anti-trust. But when Google does it, it's good business? I'm not sure where all of this Google love

so when any other company does something like this, we cry anti-trust. But when Google does it, it's good business? I'm not sure where all of this Google love comes from on HN (besides all of the engineers that work there). Google is just as evil as any large corporation. They may surgar-coat everything with a "do no evil" mantra, but it's just good PR. When you peel back these layers, it's business as usual.

FeeTinesAMady 12y ago
It might be more that a lot of people consider Uber to be a despicable company, and Google is the lesser of those evils in this case.
smtddr 12y ago
>> Google is just as evil as any large corporation. Let's not exaggerate. Google might not be perfect; nobody is, but their actions are great magnitudes in distance from the evil some other companies have done. I'd rather work for Google than any of the companies below: - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fuels-inequality-epidemic-taking-advantage-of-our-safety-net http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fu... - http://www.alternet.org/story/52526/rural_communities_exploited_by_nestle_for_your_bottled_water http://www.alternet.org/story/52526/rural_communities_exploi... - http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/08/02/3466915/chiquita-colombia-ruling/ http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/08/02/3466915/chiquita-c... - http://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-2-why-does-business-need-ethics/case-the-ford-pinto/ http://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-2-why-doe... - https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons - ...just about any oil company. - ...The diamond industry. - ...and I'm highly suspicious of what goes on in insurance & credit card companies.
- paulhauggis 12y ago
  Google's entire business is based on completely taking every single one of our actions, thoughts, connections, and interests and selling it out to advertisers. Most Android phones push you to put everything into the cloud. Do you know why? Oh yeah, that's right, so they can sell your data to advertisers. Recently, they stopped putting organic search terms in referral traffic from the Google search engine to a website, effectively making it impossible to use any other applications except Google Adsense. Great company, right? They have had a monopoly as bad and far reaching as Microsoft..yet I rarely hear the hatred that I used to hear about Microsoft in the late 90s. It seems like all you need to do is support the developer community by giving out lots of free software/open source and the tech community will forgive you for pretty much anything (employing you at $100,000+/year also helps in this forgiveness).
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stickfigure 12y ago
But when Google does it, it's good business? Google hasn't done this. So let's not get worked up about a hypothetical.
msabalau 12y ago
So "we" cry antitrust whenever a company decides to enter a market? That seems odd.

FeeTinesAMady 12y ago

It might be more that a lot of people consider Uber to be a despicable company, and Google is the lesser of those evils in this case.

smtddr 12y ago

>> Google is just as evil as any large corporation. Let's not exaggerate. Google might not be perfect; nobody is, but their actions are great magnitudes in distance from the evil some other companies have done. I'd rather work for Google than any of the companies below: - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fuels-inequality-epidemic-taking-advantage-of-our-safety-net http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fu... - http://www.alternet.org/story/52526/rural_communities_exploited_by_nestle_for_your_bottled_water http://www.alternet.org/story/52526/rural_communities_exploi... - http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/08/02/3466915/chiquita-colombia-ruling/ http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/08/02/3466915/chiquita-c... - http://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-2-why-does-business-need-ethics/case-the-ford-pinto/ http://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-2-why-doe... - https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons - ...just about any oil company. - ...The diamond industry. - ...and I'm highly suspicious of what goes on in insurance & credit card companies.

paulhauggis 12y ago
Google's entire business is based on completely taking every single one of our actions, thoughts, connections, and interests and selling it out to advertisers. Most Android phones push you to put everything into the cloud. Do you know why? Oh yeah, that's right, so they can sell your data to advertisers. Recently, they stopped putting organic search terms in referral traffic from the Google search engine to a website, effectively making it impossible to use any other applications except Google Adsense. Great company, right? They have had a monopoly as bad and far reaching as Microsoft..yet I rarely hear the hatred that I used to hear about Microsoft in the late 90s. It seems like all you need to do is support the developer community by giving out lots of free software/open source and the tech community will forgive you for pretty much anything (employing you at $100,000+/year also helps in this forgiveness).
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stickfigure 12y ago

But when Google does it, it's good business? Google hasn't done this. So let's not get worked up about a hypothetical.

msabalau 12y ago

So "we" cry antitrust whenever a company decides to enter a market? That seems odd.