Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors

Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by m0zg on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:00PM (#19792866)

Nah. Larry doesn't get a pass on this one. I was there at the time, and this (unlike, say, Cloud) clearly was one of "his" projects, something he pushed relentlessly and cared about a lot. That's why G+ was where you went if you wanted a quick and easy promo: you could launch a total embarrassing turd and just because Larry liked G+ that turd would be promotion worthy nevertheless.

Seeing the FB revenue figures today I can see why he cared, but I think he undermined the long term prospects of the company with this shit quite a bit, and distracted it from more valuable pursuits as well. That's all on him, not on Gundotra.

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by systemBuilder on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:53PM (#19793206)

Google is not going to sell every g*damn email you ever sent for $$$, but Facebook will and does. So there was never as much profit there for Google as for Facebook because Google was run more ethically.

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by m0zg on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:37PM (#19793448)

Never say never. Companies pretty routinely do surprisingly underhanded/unethical things once they begin to experience financial difficulties, if not on their own then under pressure from investors.

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by sirkneeland on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:24AM (#19795643)

Wait, how does FB have my sent emails? I'd think sent emails were one of the few things they don't have access to

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Re:Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors by ummonk on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:02PM (#19793895)

Did you miss the time that google was showing ads targeted based on the content of your emails?

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