50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by adventured on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:56PM (#20921788)

> Why has Google become the new Microsoft?

Google hasn't changed, their actions have acquired increased consequences and attention. You'd have to go back to their early days to find a truly different Google, nearly two decades into the past.

Gates for example was always ruthless in business, even in the early days, it's just that few people cared about Microsoft's behavior until they became powerful. The same is true of Google and most any corporation. Google is behaving pretty much as you would expect a company in their position to, it's entirely predictable.

Amusing Gary Reback quote (he was notorious in those days for opposing Microsoft in Silicon Valley) from the 1990s Microsoft era:

"The only thing J. D. Rockefeller did that Bill Gates hasn't done," Reback would wail, "is use dynamite against his competitors!"

Wired, Nov 1, 2000

The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth

https://outline.com/2DKmtw

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Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i... by bakuninsbart on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:58AM (#20926858)

Here's a pretty long article detailing some of Google's recent history and culture clashes:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...

Google the company shifted towards being purely profit oriented long ago, but google the employees didn't see it that way, and resisted quite a lot, until recently.

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