Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor

Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor by paulhauggis on Monday February 02, 2015 @05:47PM (#8987609)

so when any other company does something like this, we cry anti-trust. But when Google does it, it's good business?

I'm not sure where all of this Google love comes from on HN (besides all of the engineers that work there). Google is just as evil as any large corporation.

They may surgar-coat everything with a "do no evil" mantra, but it's just good PR. When you peel back these layers, it's business as usual.

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Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor by smtddr on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:20PM (#8987797)

>> Google is just as evil as any large corporation.

Let's not exaggerate. Google might not be perfect; nobody is, but their actions are great magnitudes in distance from the evil some other companies have done. I'd rather work for Google than any of the companies below:

- http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fu...

- http://www.alternet.org/story/52526/rural_communities_exploi...

- http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/08/02/3466915/chiquita-c...

- http://philosophia.uncg.edu/phi361-metivier/module-2-why-doe...

- https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons

- ...just about any oil company.

- ...The diamond industry.

- ...and I'm highly suspicious of what goes on in insurance & credit card companies.

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Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor by paulhauggis on Monday February 02, 2015 @11:24PM (#8988848)

Google's entire business is based on completely taking every single one of our actions, thoughts, connections, and interests and selling it out to advertisers.

Most Android phones push you to put everything into the cloud. Do you know why? Oh yeah, that's right, so they can sell your data to advertisers.

Recently, they stopped putting organic search terms in referral traffic from the Google search engine to a website, effectively making it impossible to use any other applications except Google Adsense. Great company, right?

They have had a monopoly as bad and far reaching as Microsoft..yet I rarely hear the hatred that I used to hear about Microsoft in the late 90s.

It seems like all you need to do is support the developer community by giving out lots of free software/open source and the tech community will forgive you for pretty much anything (employing you at $100,000+/year also helps in this forgiveness).

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Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor by stickfigure on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:32PM (#8987864)

But when Google does it, it's good business?

Google hasn't done this. So let's not get worked up about a hypothetical.

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Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor by FeeTinesAMady on Monday February 02, 2015 @06:04PM (#8987720)

It might be more that a lot of people consider Uber to be a despicable company, and Google is the lesser of those evils in this case.

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Re:Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor by msabalau on Monday February 02, 2015 @08:06PM (#8988273)

So "we" cry antitrust whenever a company decides to enter a market? That seems odd.

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