Ex-Googler Laments the New Google
February 16, 2012
Nelson of Nelson’s Weblog is “No Longer Loving Google, Inc.” Sour grapes?
Perhaps not, as the ex-Google employee maintains he has defended the company many times since 2006. What changed? The write up explains:
This last month has been particularly hard for Google lovers. I took the company’s side in the Kenya mobile fiasco up until the company admitted that, indeed, employees were lying to steal customers from Mocality. Then the big stories about Google Search+ and Google’s new privacy policy. I think one is actively bad and the other is mostly harmless, but both changes are so complex and unpleasantly
self-motivated it makes me sad. So now when I read about a friend getting terminated from AdSense with no explanation I just get a headache.
The piece goes on to posit that Google has gotten so big that it has shifted its focus from improving the world to improving its own bottom line. The writer has decided to dedicate his energies to “upstarts and startups.” That’s actually not a bad idea.
Cynthia Murrell, February 16, 2012
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