DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide
DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide
Google exec said users get hooked on search engine like “cigarettes or drugs.”
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Dude wrote a memo telling everyone just how fucking evil we are and tried to hide it. They then got caught and try play off that he was cosplaying an evil villain from a movie. What a fucking joke. I hope Google gets broken up along with Amazon.
The antitrust law need to be refreshed and have teeth put back, it isn't just those two that need splitting.
They should all be lined up and shot. <— That’s not me saying it. It’s a parody from a movie about someone fed up with the late stage capitalist hellscape this world has become.
You posted it; own it
Dude wrote a memo telling everyone just how fucking evil we are and tried to hide it. They then got caught and try play off that he was cosplaying an evil villain from a movie.
Do you have a source for it being a legitimate memo? I get that the message is embarrassingly close to the truth, but if what you say is true, they'd be committing perjury - which would get them into even more trouble.
The article said they presented this memo he wrote. He says it was a joke and he never meant anyone to take it seriously. Like you can prove if he tells the truth or not.
He got caught saying the quite part out loud.
The article I read only mentioned a note during a communication training, no official memo.
Do you have a source for it being a legitimate memo?
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-09/416692.pdf
Not sure if you missed that in the article OR are questioning whether the papers filed are legit.
It's filed as an exihibit, so I'd imagine it's veracity has already been verified/vetted.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what is so evil about what was written in the document? To me it just sounded like the guy was bragging about their dominance.
The drug and cigarette analogy is dramatic, but the real heat is going to come from the claim that they only care about the supply side of the equation, not demand. In other words, their audience is locked in and has no power, and the ad suppliers (Google themselves) set the market conditions.
That is dangerously close to monopoly talk.
Yeha, that's monopoly talk. I guess I was expecting something else when I read "evil".
I don't really think people are locked-in by any means, there are so many alternatives. People just prefer Google because it provides the best search results and they don't care about privacy. The alternatives are pretty good, but people just want the best. I usually have to go back to Google to query something whenever DDG isn't providing good results.
Before downvoting, at least explain why people are locked-in. Aren't there alternatives to Google? They are definetely creating a horizontal monopoly by acquiring all the companies in the chain, from advertisers to operating systems... but there are alternatives to Google (the search engine). I use DDG everyday, how am I locked-in to Google? I'm not arguing against the monopoly, I'm arguing against the lock-in.
Google- DDG, Swisscows, Qwant
Google Chrome - Mozilla
Google Cloud - DigitalOcean
Android - /e/
Google Phones - Fairphone
Google Meets - Zoom
Google maps - Waze
Google photos - Dropbox
YouTube - Vimeo
I really don't see the lock-in. People just want monopoly-grade service quality without the monopoly. You can't have both.
Google funds Mozilla, And nearly all non-firefox browsers are chromium based, which means google gets to set the standards of the web.
Android is a similar story, many forks may have removed google from the equation, but google makes a decision regarding android, and it will shake all forks downstream from it.
The others really aren't that concerning because there are real alternatives to them.
But Google's AdSense might be the one that gets them in the end.