07.16.09
Google, how we miss ye.
Remember the early days of Google? The Google page itself was plain and white execpt for the search form and the primary colors of the Google logo in the midde of the page? Remember when searching Google brought back results instead of advertisements? All the results were truly results, there was not a thinly veiled listing of commercialized results at the top?
Google once had a motto, “Don’t be evil”. Do you think a motto like that would loose its emphasis once the happy times are over and they discover they need to make some money to support all the amazing projects, long term initiatives, and employee benefits. How long can it be before they replace product quality with marketing as other large companies have done?
Has it already happened?