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Re:Google in, Google out by shakna on Monday May 22, 2017 @05:24AM (#14392126)
> so far Google has limited itself to indexing information rather than summarizing or categorizing it

Apart from Google's Instant Answers. Which have, in the past, captured misleading or flat-out wrong information.

> predatory pricing etc

See Firebase's recent price hike. [0]

Not all Google products are free, Google is not just a search engine. Some start off reasonable, you get invested, and then they suddenly become ridiculously more expensive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409

Re:Google in, Google out by joshuamorton on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:30AM (#14394366)
(I work for google, but nothing to do with firebase)

How exactly is what I think is best summarized as "we had a bug in our pricing system that was undercharging a miniscule number of users by an order of magnitude, and when we fixed the bug, they were informed of the price increase and we even gave them ways to mitigate, but their app architecture was terrible which made it difficult or impossible, and then after they raised a stink about it we reduced the cost/credited them enough to be mutually agreeable" as predatory?