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Jay · **Ex OSYer** Captain Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 1589

After reading this let there be no doubt: Google has officially moved up in rank from "sort of maybe evil" to "evil". You can't own any part of AOL and not be considered evil. It is simply not possible.

I wonder how the Google whores out there will reconcile this one?

HitScan · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:51 am Post subject:

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Mord · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:14 am Post subject:

Yeah but is being evil really so bad?
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kingpinmc · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:20 am Post subject:

You want you IM client to take off... so what do you do... do what MS does.. buy one. Razz

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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject:

As soon as I found out that Google's "slogan" was "Don't be evil" I knew, right then and there, that they were going to find a way to be as evil as possible in as short an amount of time as they could.
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kingpinmc · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:

Next thing you know they'll beta release a mini me google
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Maxi Does Dallas?

Twisted Evil

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Mord · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

Mord · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

Hey JR, what about doing a progress bar for "Google Evilness", or a Pie chart like the ones you do when Sun does something amaz^H^H^H^Hstupid.
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Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject:

Heh, a Google Evil-O-Meter(tm)... I like it...
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kingpinmc · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject:

Magus · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject:

Of course, Google is now starting to be sued for supposed violations of ridiculous patents. Ah, beautiful. Very Happy

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PaoloM · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

Conversation after dinner last night:

Paolo: mumble mumble something

Jeremy: muble mumble Google OS...

Paolo: Yeah, I wish Google would just go away and die.

Jeremy: They are so... smug. Kinda like Netscape was.

Paolo: That thought gives me hope, then.
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FondueDaredevil · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject:

Jay · **Ex OSYer** Captain Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 1589

I think Google's search engine is great. For that reason alone I don't want them to "go away". However it is everything else they do that I can't stand.... I also think that they are quite overvalued and the day reality hits them - it's going to make a lot of people substanially less rich (but still rich nonetheless).

P.S. Happy Pre New Year!