Their business was to index the entire internet. Now they practically are the internet. Don’t be evil very much meant something beyond ads and imo it meant “don’t fucking become Sauron”
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“Don’t be evil” never meant anything except don’t put ads before search results and they clearly abandoned that one a long time ago.
archchan@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Not being evil is for the poor and powerless. Rich people are just better than the rest of us and deserve to be able to shit wherever they want.
I joke, but seriously, no one gets as rich as the leaders of all these big companies without hurting a lot of innocent people in the process. Never forget, there are no virtuous billionaires.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I’ve said it it before: it was a command to the users. “Don’t be evil (because we see everything you do)”.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 month ago
It’s a pretty hard thing to hold back the tsunami of assholes who descend on a company once it starts making above a certain amount of money, who want to use it for evil.
wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I can personally vouch, having seen this when private equity bought out the company I worked at and significantly cut everyone’s wages while telling us we needed to massively increase productivity. Unchecked greed at its finest.