Google Slapping
Call me naive: I think you can make a lot of money, go public, even monopolize a market, and still retain a moral compass that points in the direction of Google’s stated top priority—users.
Blake Ross on Firefox » Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose.
People are starting to notice that Google does indeed do evil and that they are slowly getting more and more evil as people seem to not notice. Their lack of quality and broad assumptions that we are willing to accept this are erroneous (hopefully) and they’ll change (hopefully).
Google does a few things fairly well for the most part. They provide decent search results from a browser for searching the internet. (I’ve come to understand that their search appliances are pretty pathetic however.) They do a decent job at paying for the majority advertising to the appropriate parties though their billing of said “clicks” should certainly be reviewed as well as their methods for enabling/disabling campaigns that mysteriously seem to turn back on. (If your budget isn’t worth hundreds of thousands and your income isn’t worth a similar amount you’re of no importance to Google in other words.)
What they don’t do well: Anything else. The pundits will eagerly lay claims at innovation but, really, Google hasn’t done much in the way of innovation. They’ve just simply purchased and copied. They’ve made marginal improvements to things but, really, they should stick with search and advertising. (Maybe email too though nothing that they’ve done is really that innovative in that space either.)
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December 30th, 2006 at 10:13 am
Ah how timely…
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/e19d6ab5d41e58eb/bd2a9386c2a1ad41