So...why is a company automatically evil when it attempts to make money by aligning its interests with customers or by making sure customers will come back to them because of ease of use, comfortability, etc.? If anything has made the company get so big, it's because people keep using its services, even in the face of other major competitors like Microsoft or former heavyweight Yahoo.crux wrote:Nonetheless, I very much fully support keeping a watchful eye on Google. Their dominance truly is reaching very dangerous levels. It's a difficult company to pinpoint, as everything they do to help the end user also serves to keep those users devoted to Google and their advertisers. If Google had its way, computers and internet would be free for everyone. To the benefit of everyone, or to the benefit of Google? It's almost impossible to see a distinction.
So what has Google done to deserve so much animosity and bile? Because I've made excellent use of their services, and had excellent results. Gmail's space easily trumps the other email services I've used, and the layout is easy to use. I've had more luck with Google than I've had with any other search engine. I haven't tried Chrome yet, but if it's a quality product and I become fed up with Firefox, it's always an option. And Google Wave at least seems interesting. What, are they clubbing baby seals to drill faulty oil wells in the Gulf while treating their old mercenary employees like dirt while they shoot civilian Iraqis? Should I expect them at any time to reclaim all the software I've downloaded via their services while they force out other service providing software by sticking theirs with their OS on their pretentious iproducts while Dick Cheney laughs on their board of directors? Did they manage to bring down the entire financial system with their collapse because they are too big to fail, or were they slaves to union bosses requiring health care services while foreign competitors moved in, forcing billion dollar bailouts of the industry?
Who did I leave out?
