The In-Progress Plot To Kill Google 234
twitter writes "Four years after Steve Ballmer vowed to kill Google, Wired details Microsoft's, AT&T's, and big publishers' ongoing slog. The story is filled with astroturfers, lobbyists and others spending millions to manufacture FUD about privacy and monopoly in order to protect the obsolete business models of their patrons, who are mostly known for progress-halting monopoly and invasion of privacy. Their greatest coup to date was preventing Google from rescuing Yahoo."
Summary omission (Score:5, Funny)
LEAVE GOOGLE ALONE!!! (Score:5, Funny)
"Their greatest coup to date was preventing Google from rescuing Yahoo."
Poor Google. Selflessly throwing a lifeline to troubled Yahoo without a thought for their own safety or position. And do people thank them for it? Noooo. You'd think they were doing it for their own benefit.
WHY the hell it cant be heroism ? or goodwill ? (Score:5, Funny)
excuse me guys, but, people on top of business world, board of directors, ceos, executives are ALL people. they have various emotions like anyone else. remember how a number of executives had totally crashed u.s. and world economy out of pure simple greed, letting go of all reasonable precautions and moves with the hedge fund gig.
the fact that up to this date many of the moves on top of business world have been done through selfish, negative interests does NOT mean that it has to be like that forever into the future.
they are people. yes, a board of directors, executives CAN feel positive emotions, and CAN move out of goodwill, or a sense of honor, or any other similar emotion.
none of them are exempt from being homo sapiens sapiens, after all, which is what we all exactly are.
Re:What about the bank that keeps your money? (Score:5, Funny)
If you mistrust Google, shouldn't you keep all your money under the mattress or buried in the garden?
You fool ! Google knows where the mattress is via Google Maps and the garden is plainly visible on Google Earth !
Re:WHY the hell it cant be heroism ? or goodwill ? (Score:2, Funny)
Most business decisions aren't based on the decisions of one person. There are exceptions, to be sure, but most business decisions are based on rational conclusions drawn by a company's panel of experts in the area the decision is made by.
Re:Is it FUD if there's some truth to it? (Score:3, Funny)
and don't put all eggs in one basket. OK?
Didnt you hear.. they just opened up the Google Yolk beta program to the public.
Re:Google works well (Score:4, Funny)
You have to trust someone and so far Google has shown that it hasn't breached that trust. A standard rule in life is to initially trust someone until it's been broken once.
Perhaps Google is simply waiting for the right, most profitable moment to break everyone's trust...
Re:conspiracy theories (Score:3, Funny)
Wow.
Your post was like a Kamehameha of Star Wars references.
Re:conspiracy theories (Score:3, Funny)
Because in south-east Asia, only old people use Google
Re:on Yahoo folder vs GMail tag (Score:3, Funny)
Google is like ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WHY the hell it cant be heroism ? or goodwill ? (Score:4, Funny)
I think the numbers for women are reversed... 1 in 5 are stable, rational individuals. Or that might just be a view skewed heavily by my piss-poor dating experiences.