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Re: Is Google the New Evil Empire?
Posted by: Rob Enderle 2005-10-31 05:24:12

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I'm either fortunate or unfortunate enough to have gone through a couple of significant corporate cycles in the world of business in recent decades. In the 1980s IBM started as the most respected company in the industry and ended as that decade's "Evil Empire." In the '90s, and over what seemed to be a much shorter period of time, Microsoft went down a similar path. And now all eyes are on Google, who is everyone's darling today, but is clearly showing a disturbing dark side.

Re: Is Google the New Evil Empire?
Posted by: Mysterius 2005-11-22 20:57:20 In reply to: Rob Enderle

Google's policies have been focused on benefiting the consumer and the company. The section on Google Book Search is misleading, because the potential victims of the opt-out policy would be the publishing houses, not the consumers. Overall, this emphasis on Google becoming the next "Evil Empire" is highly overrated. Besides, if this sort of talk continues, maybe even Google will start (half-) believing it, and what a tragedy that would be.