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Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth (arstechnica.com)

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Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth. The once-beloved startup—with its unofficial "Don't Be Evil" motto—has instead become a major Internet monopolist, as a federal judge ruled on Monday, dominating the market for online search. Google is also well-known for its data-harvesting practices, for constantly killing off products, and for facilitating the rise of brain-cell-destroying YouTubers who make me Fear for Today's Youth. (Maybe that last one is just me?)

Google's rapid rise from "scrappy search engine with doodles" to "dystopic mega-corporation" has been remarkable in many ways, especially when you consider just how much goodwill the company squandered so quickly. Along the way, though, Google has achieved one unexpected result: In a divided America, it offers just about everyone something to hate.

Here are just a few of the players hating Google today.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Corporations: Hmm, we seem to have saturated our market. How do we make line keep go up?

Diversify our products to cater to new or niche markets.
Accept the status quo and focus on making our existing customers happy while integrating feedback to improve and entice people to ditch our competitors?
Make everything worse because what are they gonna do, use Bing? LOL
Congratulate ourselves on winning capitalism, then selling our stocks to the employees so we can go enjoy our wealth and return forever.
HAHAHAHA yeah right. Time to squeeze this shit for every red cent then cash out before the stock price crashes and move in to the next victim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You got that right bro. Greed breeds abuse of the customer. Mega-companies, become the worst problem the world has because of that same greed. To put it bluntly "Greed is not good" to mis-quote a 'Wall Street" movie character player by Charlie Sheen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Michael Douglas

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nationalize google and turn it into a coop that is democratically controlled by worker and users. Lets us vote on their management and corporate priorities and policies.

To hell with the shareholders! They ruin everything!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I wish there were more coops. Shareholders are almost the entire reason for the mess we find ourselves in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

At least their crawlers should be nationalised/coop/something.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They took down the Don't Be Evil sign.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me of a cannibal in the Deltora series who has the sign "LIVE NO EVIL" on the wall, when it's actually "LIVE ON EVIL" but mirrored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

~~Don’t~~ Be Evil

faster just to x through the problematic bits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is more Elon's thing 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

dude that's funny but elon never started with don't be evil, he just went full hog on the evil from the start.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'm all about that duck duck go yo

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