I saw a post that said the same thing about duckduckgo a couple of days ago
If only they had stuck with that
They definitely abandoned the “do one thing well” philosophy.
And the “don’t be evil” philosophy
Ahh yes the “Do no evil” era.
yea, its funny to see xkcd.com/792 from 2010, back when google wasn’t evil
As it turns out, making boatloads of money despite already doing that was the plan.
Notice that era was before they went public. Then it predictably became the “how do we make a profit this quarter?” era.
I would like to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting when they decided “OK now we’re evil, right?”
How the mighty have fallen
All these companies start off with altruistic intentions and then become evil. Money and power is helluva drug.
Google set out specifically to not be evil. They even set their company motto as “don’t be evil”. But then racist fucking psychopath Sundar Pichai was hired as CEO and the motto was scraped for “do the right thing”, with the “right thing” always being evil. The new motto is only half spoken. The full motto is truly “do the right thing to obtain money and power at all costs”.
Oh the irony
Oh how the dystopian tables have turned
I wonder if this is the actual philosophy Google had at the time or if they always planned to be what they are now.
There will always be a difference between the two-things-in-a-basement mentality and the oh-god-won’t-somebody-think-of-the-shareholders mentality.
Don’t be evil, you know.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of Steve Wozniak / Steve Jobs split personality thing going on. Maybe one or the other person involved were serious about the “don’t be evil” thing. But the others were not.
Time to re-integrate portal litter into our vocabularies
yeah sorta funny how google took over partly because yahoo was so fully of ads and crap.