Google's Go

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bane" <branimir.milosavljevic at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> I naively and firmly believe, from my standpoint as a individual, that any 
> large corporation is evil. Google is no exception.
>

Hear hear!

> My understanding is that maybe when they were startup, they were 
> idealistic. Once they grew to a certain size, and amounted certain cash, 
> everything goes the same way as with M$ or any other company. Lots of 
> money comes with lots of power, people attracted to it etc. Game is to 
> stay on top, which means eating smaller fishes and expanding to other 
> areas (Google burger anyone?). If not so, then they would not be No1 and 
> some bigger fish would eat them. Thats capitaljism, as Arnold from Red 
> Heat would say.
>

Yea, something I find quite interesting is that, originally, I liked Google 
very much. They made the smartest and best web search engine out there, and 
married it with what, to this day, I consider one of the best examples of 
web interface design around. But then as soon as they had their IPO they 
started pumping out 95% junk (ie, at least Google Maps has some good points) 
but were hailed by everyone anyway because "Hey! It's the same great company 
as before!". The hell it is.