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Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 child)

How far has google fallen? Reader, in 1996 they were a goddamned miracle. Now? The world is objectively worse off due to their existence.

TL;DR: they became evil

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[–] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

Lol, especially funny because Google's motto quite literally used to be, "Don't be evil." And they apparently even use that phrase in their company code of conduct.

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[–] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Google removed “Don’t be evil” from the preface of its employee Code of Conduct in May 2018.

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

they never actually did follow that creed. ever. at the start it was the typical immature startup. hell bent on gaining users and market share at any cost while refining their 'products'. the goal was always sell high or go public. regardless of which path, "evil" always drives the bus.

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[–] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Makes sense, that's probably around the time they became evil.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 point 14 hours ago

They were always evil. Just more hypocritical before 2018, and less powerful.

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