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Google's 25th Birthday
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#22They destroyed the internet, with blessings for simplifying it, and then they cannibalized their own services for short term profit.
To paraphrase what the DOJ just said in their opening statement, the Google you're talking about is long gone.
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#23Google has been a constant part of my life from early 2000's and I'm grateful to them for providing so many useful products. Most of them were awesome and worked fully without annoying ads or subscriptions. They will come with something new (usually unannounced) and I will be so excited to try it. Technically, they would almost work from day one. Needless to say, I was a Google fanboi during the first decade of the c…
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#24Eh...
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It’s apparently the DOJ’s turn to call Google a monopoly, the case they filed in 2020 is finally going to trial, and it’s all over the news.
The FTC itself sues google every few years, last two were in 2019 and 2022 so give it a few more years.
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#26I honestly think the world is a poorer place for having had a single
US company dominate so many areas of digital technology for so long.
I hope that in another 25 years giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple and so on are just small players in a globally inter-operable, open and diverse technological world.
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#27> "That search returned 10 blue links, but no green dress."
Such a heart-warming story about Google wanting the green dress for itself, scraping a copy so the destination site didn't get the web traffic.
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#28They destroyed the internet, with blessings for simplifying it, and then they cannibalized their own services for short term profit. To paraphrase what the DOJ just said in their opening statement, the Google you're talking about is long gone.
The minute a competitor appeared to challenge them, they threw all their initial goodwill away. It’s very unfortunate, so yeah. Thanks for destroying the internet Google.
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#29I just got an email that they killed Google Podcasts app. Birthday surprise for us!
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#30They destroyed the internet, with blessings for simplifying it, and then they cannibalized their own services for short term profit. To paraphrase what the DOJ just said in their opening statement, the Google you're talking about is long gone.
The google that deserved much praise has been dead since not long after the DoubleClick acquisition. They’ve been DoubleClick/Google since. Ordering intentional.
That means they’ve been evil or rushing as fast as they can toward evil since… 2008.
Google died at about 10 years old.