How Not To Blog ?

So many people see Google as god-like, they who can do no wrong.

When Google tries out new tools from their wonderful labs, some people have a fit, others gape in wonder (link).

Googling 'google evil' we find an article from IT world wondering if Google has opted-out of their abstract policy to do no evil. We also find Google Watch's page (see bottom).

Google's toolbar is what I will call 'evil creep' disguised as an enhancement to the user experience. "Wow it's so cool" delights. Everyone is happy. Google is a multi-billion dollar company whose concern is now to shareholders, not the public. Much like slowly boiling the frog, Google now has an obligation to exploit the respect and admiration of millions of its users (though the frog never had so much fun).

I remember America Online back in the day, so respected because it offered an easy way for thousands of people to navigate online when few others besides Prodigy and Compuserve could not have foreseen the internet's potential. Who doesn't know someone now who got burned and/or screwed by the company? Simply saying "AOL" is enough to make most smart people laugh uncontrollably. It is the nature of for-profit companies to take advantage of their customers, and squeeze them for all the money they can.

Google is no different now that they are public. They are obligated to turn higher profits than they did the year before. Their model rests almost entirely on Adwords profits, which is probably not a good idea. Soon the multitudes of fraudulent clicks will put a big dent in most of the PPC engines out there. That's what happens when you allow anyone to publish and make money from displaying your ads. Brazil and Romania Clicking Crus in the house!

I'm pretty sure Larry Page and Sergey Brin would have wanted to have their cake and eat it, too. I guess they'll just settle for watching their baby burn shi7 up while starting some other cool ventures in 2008.

Don't get me wrong. I would screw you, too, and invent things like GMail and such. It's nothing personal. It's just business.