Google - Don't be evil?

That is what you wanted, to win a debate instead of dealing with reality!

If I were you I would ask Sergey and Larry to come on the forum and denounce their corporate culture and admit that they like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and have really gone off the deep end and dwell in darkness!

 

Google will buy Microsoft. That's impossible, google is a search engine and microsoft is a software monopoly supplying OSs for 80% of every sold computers. So it's most likely MS can buy google, not the other way.

With Windows vista, MSN will be the primary search engine in 80% of computers as there will be a desktop MSN search for 80% of the user and 50% of them doesnt understand the difference between google, yahoo or MSN. So google is likely to have a problem for this unless they fix their way of thinking against SEOs and searchers.

Google often announces that they ban sites who sell or buy links for SERPs. But whenever you ask about adwords to MC or anyone from google, they change the subject. If they are banning sites who are buying links for advertisement, traffic, they must stop selling links, too. Otherwise they must ban theirselves.

So I dont think there is much difference in evilness between MS and Google. At least microsoft is releasing thousands of different products like .NET, SQL, Office, etc..

What is google providing than a search engine updating algo. every 2 months to ban spammers or link buyers? What about click frauds for adwords, what about adsense spam???

 

Is Google really evil, is it possible that we are all evil....

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http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Search/wtr_16210,308,p1.html

Google's decision last week to launch a specialized version of its services in China -- minus blogging and e-mail tools, not to mention search results that Chinese government officials might deem subversive -- may be most damaging to its do-gooder image.


Not surprisingly, Google gained the backing of other companies, such as Microsoft, who would also like to bring information services to China, and who see acceding to censorship as a lesser evil.


But it was doused in criticism from human rights groups. Amnesty International called the move "the latest in a string of examples of global Internet companies caving in to pressure from the Chinese government." Reporters Without Borders said the launch of Google.cn was "a black day for freedom of expression in China." Some observers have even called for a Google divestment campaign. "Everyone who cares about the free-flow of information, about democracy in China, in fact about democracy anywhere, should start selling their Google stock," writes novelist, screenwriter, and blogger Roger L. Simon.


How quickly things change. Just a week earlier, Google was winning plaudits from civil libertarians for not caving in to demands for data on users' search behaviors from the U.S. Department of Justice, which wants to use the data to revive a 1998 online pornography law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Federal officials, who are preparing to defend the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act in a federal court in Pennsylvania, say they need records of a week's worth of Google search queries and 1 million random Web addresses in order to show that minors have easy access to Internet porn.)

Yet even that decision by Google led to public-relations problems, since many Internet users were surprised and angered when they learned from coverage of the dispute that Google keeps records of old searches, and that these searches could conceivably be traced back to an individual's computer.


In short, Google's business bears so directly on key hot-button issues today -- privacy, free speech, intellectual property rights -- that no matter what the company does, it will likely offend someone. What's more, by publicizing such a high-minded motto, "Don't be evil" -- the phrase even appeared in the company's SEC filings before its initial public offering in 2004 -- Google has given critics a weapon to throw back at it every time it strays across someone's ethical boundary.

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Hitler proved to be evil....

Can we prove that Google is evil or not evil

 

Well you do almost look like Jesus so I don't think you're evil

 

Well I am sure Robert Plant would love you for that

But I don't think anyone has seen him....

But we have seen Robert Plant, check this out!

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=598636&postcount=5

 

Google is far more than just a search engine nowadays. It clearly tries to get a foot in door of the software market, and eventually even in the OS market someday. Will I don't think that it is very likely as well that they will buy MS one day, I wouldn't say that it's impossible.

 

Google market cap...57billion
Google cash on hand....7 billion

MS has over 30billion cash on hand.

Do the math.

MS should try to buy them out.
But don't think google will sell out.
Hmmm...wonder if MS has a chunk of google shares?

 

His market capitalization figures are off, see this:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=590607&postcount=8

They are more like 130 Billion

 

See also http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=001000000VX1,
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
and http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368125/index.htm

 

Google is going to introduce a free Google Linux distro!

http://www.webcenter.squarespace.com/linux-desktop-plus-search/

It is just a rumor, but I think it is going to happen because it makes sense!

 

What would be really great is if they added the kind of easy driver and software installation that windows has.

If they crack that, they have a real chance of gaining ground in the operating system market.
I would certainly switch!

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Good point but it will be in a long run coz almost every business use MS compatible softwares. In the other hand using linux there will be tons of FREE software for G's OS

 

Theres always linux compatible open source software.
You just need them to be easy to install

 

I may sound like a MS OS junky but Im not . MS still rules the OS market but everything has an end, and I think Linux will end it for sure