How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads

Re:How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads by Karunamon on Monday March 25, 2013 @07:01PM (#5440284)

>This is the same way you'd criticize a king, somebody you are beholden to.

Or because you really like the company. I think you've misinterpreted the thoughts involved here..

Google is one I have pretty positive feelings about, not just because their applications are usually the best as far as web-based SaaS offerings go, they're free, usually painless (for most people), but also because they just plain make cool stuff. (Glass? Driverless cars?)

I'd count their presence and activities, even with the warts, as a huge net benefit for technology and even humanity as a whole.

Possibly irrational fanboying aside, the electric or phone company or cable company the other hand are things that people love to hate. Off the top of my head..

* Arbitrary and large rate hikes or base prices * Take it or leave it attitude * Customer-hostile

It makes a consumer feel somewhat hunted, as in they tolerate the existence of and do business with these companies because they have no other choice.

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Re:How Google Sliced Away Our Knife Ads by quanticle on Monday March 25, 2013 @08:30PM (#5440633)

    Or because you really like the company.

Who says the two thoughts are mutually exclusive? In Imperial China, people genuinely loved the Emperor, even as they ran from his mandarins. In Soviet Russia, people genuinely loved Joseph Stalin, even as they ran scared from the NKVD and (later) the KGB. So it's entirely possible to love Google (the company), but think that the AdWords team or GMail team <whichever other team> is being unfair and stupid.

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