[Dean's World] Dean: Declining Trust In Google

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Posted by Dean:
Declining Trust In Google
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1167593089.shtml


   Instapundit notes that [1]trust in Google is deteriorating even
   further than it already has.

   Well of course it is. Look, they're a publicly traded multinational
   corporation. As such, they are inherently amoral. They are in business
   to make money, and that is all they are in business for. All else is
   marketing.

   It doesn't matter what line of business these large corporations are
   in, either: software, internet services, pharmaceuticals, automobiles,
   airplanes, whatever. They're in business to make money, and for
   nothing except to make money. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling
   himself. The only morality or ethics they follow is what the laws of
   economics dictate, and whatever the legal environment they operate in
   dictates.

   If you want to see a company that works by fundamentally different
   rules, you'll have to look to smaller enterprises. Family
   owned-businesses, subchapter-S corporations, small partnerships, etc.
   There's no set in stone number, but once you've gone past a small
   handful of people controlling the business, that business is no longer
   a moral entity in any realistic sense.

   The aura of greatness that once surrounded Google needed to be blown
   away. They stopped deserving one once they became publicly traded.

References

   1. http://instapundit.com/archives2/2006/12/post_1357.php