Comments on: Why Google is Evil™

By: ultraparanoid

ultraparanoid — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:03:06 +0000

Always good to know.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:58:44 +0000

“Just because Google is in a position to abuse this data is not proof that google _does_ do so. Can you provide proof?”

No, you can’t. But for me, the scale of Google’s control makes me too nervous to use their apps. The only Google service I use is the search engine. No gmail, no desktop, no calendar, no Chrome, no Google Apps.

By: n30h4x

n30h4x — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:33:07 +0000

I agree with ultraparanoid and Almarco has it too. If you search for anything, they keep tabs of it, and when you do something stupid, and someone requests for that information, they will be happy to hand it over to them. To me this violates the bill of rights, as I should have the freedom to look at anything I want with out the fear of someone stalking me. Google is the internet Big Brother, and people need to stop being sheep and open their eyes, and see that their rights are being taken away from them right in front of their noses and they don’t even know it. I laugh at the people who are willing to give up the Liberty for Freedom…pish.

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:37:15 +0000

Google is a two faced evil company that:

1. Encourages website owners to spam the web with junk pages and junk adverts.
2. It steals bandwidth by caching your pages and hotlinking to your images
3. Fixed adsense earnings so that you dont earn your full amount even if you got clicks and impressions.
4. Helps countries like china to censor the internet

Google checkout is trash and they will never defeat paypal. The google honeymoon is over. Make no mistake. If you know anything about PR, your motto is always the opposite of what your true colours are: e.g

Fox News – “Fair and Balanced” – biased and fraudulent

Nike – “Just do it” – screw the little children making our shoes, lets just do it and make a tidy profit at their expense.

Google – “don’t be evil” – evil and corrupt advert scammers hiding under the guise of an intelligent and efficient company.

Don’t get taken in by the hype and bullshit people, Google is a bu$ine$$ just like every other.

By: Rosti

Rosti — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:18:23 +0000

Dude, Google is evil (IMHO)
I am the founder of the Buenos Aires (Argentina) office in the IT area (i was the local IT manager for almost 2 years) and also 2 Google Datacenters at Argentina.
If you wanna know the story, just drop me a line.

For you all, guys….

Google
IS
EVIL

the funny thing is… Google doesn’t have an open evil policy, but the fact of doing some shit they do and saying ‘dont be evil’ at the same time, added up to the jerk offs in the management… dude… there are quite a couple of stories around there… but.. .believe me… it’s the most evil machine ever created in the world of Biz…

c ya

By: Google

Google — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:16:35 +0000

I’m watching you!

By: Almarco

Almarco — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:12:36 +0000

Google has carefully cultivated a corporate image of “not being evil” … so that people WON’T object when they start slurping up every last detail of their lives. But just think about this: they are quite willing to give up this information if the government (or any government, really, in the world) asks for it.

By: Alastair McKinstry

Alastair McKinstry — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:53:38 +0000

The point of the “Do no evil” motto is much misunderstood. As you’ve pointed out, Google has access to huge swathes of your personal data. It needs it to do its business: targetted advertising.

Just because Google is in a position to abuse this data is not proof that google _does_ do so. Can you provide proof?

Counter-proof is the lawsuits google gets involved in. It is vociferous in not handing that data over to **AA, law enforcement, etc. unless forced to.

This is because it depends on peoples trust in handing over their personal data. People can run other mail servers, blogs, search engines. If people got scared of google, they’d run in droves.

Hence the public stance to do no evil.

Are you right to be paranoid? probably. Its too much concentrated power, too much chance to be subverted. At least ensure that there are alternatives to google. But they’re not evil just because they could be.

By: Omar

Omar — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:04:29 +0000

guys, the name of the blog is “ultraparanoid” – it’s enough that google has too much power

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:43:56 +0000

utnapistim is right. You just said “Google is evil! They have the capability to be evil. Therefore they are evil!”