Google's political censorship is outrageous and dangerous.
What’s the relevance of that to this post?
That it is ongoing and growing with this extremely powerful company.
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#22> Nonetheless, Google’s core service—providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information—remains at the heart of the company.
How is it ok to just say clear lies like this?! Without making any value judgements at all this is blatantly false. The ranking algorithms specifically encode a bias into search results. This is actually explicitly what users want, too! To be clear this is distressing to me because very powerful people can throw around words uncritically in this way for niche political points without being challenged.
EDIT: It seems people are taking this comment in a way I didn't intend for it to be taken. Another example is that they are applying biases by sorting and displaying results on news.google.com. Personally I really like how this is done, but I think we need to be honest that it is a bias so that we can move on to a more productive conversation about what is or isn't a good bias.
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#25I see a few comments praising Sundar. As someone who doesn’t follow closely, but feels that Google has deteriorated dramatically under his watch, does someone mind explaining the reasoning for said praise?
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#27Posting this as throwaway because, well, obvious.
The heat is on Google and its founders. It goes beyond anything that’s in the press right now. The real question is if regulators and others will allow Sundar to take the heat for everything and keep Larry and Sergey from the “hassle” of having to testify about anti-competitive practices and a whole range of other issues. And then there are the “hobbies” of the early Google crew and founders which are a problem in the #metoo era...
There is way more to this than a retirement goodbye.
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#28Absolutely nothing about the structural discontent emerging in staff. And nothing about the increasing sense of a loss of claimed ethical stance. I stress claimed, because the lack of concern at the top at its obvious demise makes it less likely it was actually held as a core belief.
As a former Googler who stays in touch, there doesn't seem to be structural discontent emerging in staff. There were a few news stories about people complaining, but Google employs about 100,000 people, so any news story involving less than 1000 of them being unhappy can't really count as "structural discontent".
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#29I wonder if this will result in any big changes at Google or is just codifying the way things have been run for a while.
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#30Please please please, just keep telling Sundar and everyone, "don't be evil".
In a world where "telling" people is enough, there is no evil.