Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would not...
Nah, they were great when they came into existence. 'No ads, no portal, no nothing, just a search-engine". That was their sub-motto (freely quoted from memory). When the results had a time-spent on it to awe at their incredible speed AND accuracy. Before them, searching the web was annoyingly annoying.
But the moment the “don’t be evil” fell, shit continuously went downhill. Maybe even before, more unnoticed, surely went gradually.
Nowadays it’s even a bad search-engine, except you’re looking to buy something.
You’re not looking at the choices they made before and during the don’t be evil era. With all tech, if they didn’t create it, someone else would’ve because it’s not that super smart people “created” a thing but that the community created and made available the tools required to “invent” said technology.
But they were still created from the actual innovation of pagerank, straight out of public research, right?