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[quote name="IPB"]<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/">Their words</a> The company gets yanked around by Ads the way Azure kicks around the rest of MS. Google's original company purpose was simple - index information and monetize this with ads. Their early projects were based around this, like Google Books. They were willing to to court over this. They won! Then they functionally if not officially killed off the project in the early 2010s and indexing information wasn't a priority. That's also when ICJ started his Google complaint thread and that is why this place is the best. The division of Alphabet and Google was an attempt to clean things up, but it didn't seem to do anything. The rest of FAANG have been investigated by the Feds too. You get the sense though that somebody is in charge and that there is a cohesive company objective. "Don't be evil" and "squeeze as much money from ads from snooping" are so weirdly at odds it's almost Marxist dialectic. No wonder so many commies work there. [quote name="blackwater"]Whatever else happens, the company will be paralyzed for a while. Kind of like Microsoft during the Ballmer years. Even if this investigation fizzles, they will be really cautious from now on. [/quote] You mean Google might stop killing projects? Stadia might make it after all![/quote]