If only they had stuck with that
They definitely abandoned the “do one thing well” philosophy.
And the “don’t be evil” philosophy
No they just changed the focus of that to making money.
Ahh yes the “Do no evil” era.
Notice that era was before they went public. Then it predictably became the “how do we make a profit this quarter?” era.
That’s not a Google issue. That’s literally each and every public traded corporation. They need to maximize shareholders profits by definition.
Could we stop stock markets and that? I’d love it.
I don’t believe anyone decided to step in deeper shit one step at a time, they listed, and from there onwards it’s the only possible path. Death by a thousand greedy strokes.
I would like to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting when they decided “OK now we’re evil, right?”
are we the baddies?
Time to re-integrate portal litter into our vocabularies
All these companies start off with altruistic intentions and then become evil. Money and power is helluva drug.
Oh the irony
If they had ads for themselves, I assume they had income. But they say that their platform doesn’t have ads. Where did they get the money to pay their own ads?
That doesn’t look like an ad, but a section in a (probably) tech magazine where they introduce useful or interesting websites to their readers.
