Google the new villian? - Club CDFreaks

*Wesociety* · 24-08-2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/te...l?pagewanted=1

Your thoughts/comments appreciated!

*Mr. Belvedere* · 25-08-2005

Well, in a way they're pretty right. Google will be eventually so big and involved in so many things that it's not even funny anymore to no earthling at all.

So, what can the rest of the 5.99999999999999 billion people on this planet do? Envy and complain, even when everything seems free.

*Airhead* · 25-08-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wesociety

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/te...l?pagewanted=1

Your thoughts/comments appreciated!

I cant read it because it wants me to sign in and that is part of some Google plot I am sure.

Anyways Googlebot will one day be a totalitarian ruler subjecting humanity with his secret spider-police. But we wont know it, because it will be in a nice and useful way.

As long as they dont do what Altavista did they should be fine.

*drpino* · 25-08-2005

here:

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August 24, 2005
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain

By GARY RIVLIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 - For years, Silicon Valley hungered for a company mighty enough to best Microsoft. Now it has one such contender: the phenomenally successful Google.

But instead of embracing Google as one of their own, many in Silicon Valley are skittish about its size and power. They fret that the very strengths that made Google a search-engine phenomenon are distancing it from the entrepreneurial culture that produced it - and even transforming it into a threat.

A year after the company went public, those inside Google are learning the hard way what it means to be the top dog inside a culture accustomed to pulling for the underdog. And they are facing a hometown crowd that generally rebels against anything that smacks of corporate behavior.

Nowadays, when venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and technologists gather in Silicon Valley, they often find themselves grousing about Google, complaining about everything from a hoarding of top engineers to its treatment of partners and potential partners. The word arrogant is frequently used.

The news last week that Google plans to sell an additional 14 million shares of stock, adding $4 billion to its current cash reserves of $3 billion, will only provide more reasons to gripe.

"I've definitely been picking up on the resentment," said Max Levchin, a founder of PayPal, the online payment service now owned by eBay. "They're a big company now, doing things people didn't expect them to do."

Mr. Levchin, who last year founded a multimedia company in San Francisco called Slide, said Google "still has a long wick of good will to burn off," but he added, "I'm surprised at how fast the company's reputation is changing."

It was not that long ago that Google reigned here as the upstart computer company that could do no wrong. Now some working in the technology field are starting to draw comparisons between Google and Microsoft, the company in Redmond, Wash., that Silicon Valley loves most to hate.

Bill Gates certainly sees similarities between Google and his own company. This spring, in an interview with Fortune, Mr. Gates, Microsoft's chairman, said that Google was "more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with."

Google's success has already spurred Microsoft to develop its own Internet search engine (a project code-named Underdog), but Google has legions of engineers banging away on a range of projects of its own that, if successful, could dislodge Microsoft from the pre-eminent spot it has enjoyed since the early 1980's.

Of course, Silicon Valley has had past pretenders to the throne. Netscape, which went public 10 years ago this month, and its Web browser, Navigator, were supposed to fell Microsoft - but it is Netscape that is no longer in business. And while Google is riding high, those closely following the company caution that it is hardly invincible; an inflated stock price, a desire to compete in too many sectors simultaneously or simple hubris might cause it to stumble, they say. Even Microsoft, after all, has had legal troubles.

Still, similarities between Google and Microsoft are evident to local entrepreneurs including Steven I. Lurie, who worked at Microsoft between 1993 and 1999 but now lives in San Francisco, and Joe Kraus, a founder of the 1990's search firm Excite.

"There's that same 'think big' attitude about markets and opportunities," said Mr. Lurie, who has visited the Google campus in Mountain View many times to see friends who work there. "Maybe you can call it arrogance, but there's that same sense that they can do anything and get into any area and dominate."

To place Google in context, Mr. Kraus offered a brief history lesson. In the 1990's, he said, I.B.M. was widely perceived in Silicon Valley as a "gentle giant" that was easy to partner with while Microsoft was perceived as an "extraordinarily fearsome, competitive company wanting to be in as many businesses as possible and with the engineering talent capable of implementing effectively anything."

Now, in the view of Mr. Kraus, "Microsoft is becoming I.B.M. and Google is becoming Microsoft." Mr. Kraus is the chief executive and a founder of JotSpot, a Silicon Valley start-up hoping to sell blogging and other self-publishing tools to corporations.

Just as Microsoft has been seen over the years as an aggressive, deep-pocketed competitor for talent, Internet start-ups in Silicon Valley complain that virtually every time they try to recruit a well-regarded computer programmer, that person is already contemplating an offer from Google.

"Google is doing more damage to innovation in the Valley right now than Microsoft ever did," said Reid Hoffman, the founder of two Internet ventures, including LinkedIn, a business networking Web site popular among Silicon Valley's digerati. "It's largely that they're hiring up so many talented people, and the fact they're working on so many different things. It's harder for start-ups to do interesting stuff right now."

Google, Mr. Hoffman said, has caused "across the board a 25 to 50 percent salary inflation for engineers in Silicon Valley" - or at least those in a position to weigh competing offers. A sought-after computer programmer can now expect to make more than $150,000 a year.

David C. Drummond, vice president for corporate development at Google, acknowledged that the company was "very competitive" in its pursuit of talent, but added: "We're very sensitive to how everybody is perceiving us. We think the Silicon Valley ecosystem is critical for Google's success."

Google is also making it more difficult for some start-ups to raise funds. In the second half of the 1990's, entrepreneurs frequently complained that the specter of Microsoft hung over their every conversation with venture capitalists. Today, they say the same about Google.

"When I meet with venture capitalists, or if I'm engaged in a conversation about going into partnership with someone, inevitably the question is, 'Why couldn't Google do what you're doing?' " said Craig Donato, the founder and chief executive of Oodle, a site for searching online classified listings more quickly.

"The answer is, 'They could, and they're probably thinking about it, but they can't do everything and do it well,' " Mr. Donato said. "Or at least I'm hoping they can't."

Google has already added free e-mail, mapping, news aggregation and digital-photo management to its offerings, bringing it into competition in each case with two or more rivals. On Wednesday, it will announce plans for an instant-messaging system. And its plans for a new stock issue are fueling speculation that it is preparing to enter any number of other markets, from services for mobile phone users to an online payment service that would compete with PayPal.

Add to that list an Internet-based phone system and several products that would be directly aimed at Microsoft, including a Google browser and a software offering that would compete with Microsoft Office.

"If there's a perception that we're exploring lots of different areas, some of which might not be directly related to our core area of search, that's true," said Mr. Drummond, the Google vice president. "It's part of our DNA to be always innovating and exploring lots of different areas."

Yet so driven has Google been in its pursuit of new markets that at least a few in Silicon Valley are using an epithet to taunt Google that people here once reserved for Microsoft: "The Borg," a reference to an army of creatures in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" that took over civilization after civilization with machinelike precision.

Perhaps an anti-Google reaction was to be expected, given the glowing press the company has enjoyed for several years. Or maybe the carping and complaining is the inevitable reaction to a company so successful that it cannot help stomping on toes, even if accidentally.

"Hubris is an issue at every one of these Silicon Valley companies that are successful," said Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal who has invested in roughly 15 Internet start-ups in recent years. "I don't know if it's any worse at Google than it's been at other highly successful technology companies."

Aggressiveness is another signal trait among successful companies like Google - something those in parts of the media world are starting to learn.

Google recently announced that it would not talk to any reporter from CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, until July 2006, after a reporter for the site wrote an article raising privacy questions about the information Google collects about individuals.

The company also provoked the ire of many within the blogging world - not to mention snarky comments in Silicon Valley from those thinking Google was behaving like an old-line company that doesn't get it - when earlier this year it fired a new employee who had joked online that the free meals, the on-site gym and all the other perks were a clever ploy to keep people at their desks longer.

"Google is at that inflection point where it's starting to act like an establishment company, and Silicon Valley is a rebel culture," said Gautam Godhwani, a founder and chief executive at Simply Hired, an online employment site.

Microsoft, of course, has its hold on the Windows world - and a market capitalization almost four times Google's. By contrast, switching to a new search engine is as easy as calling up another Web page - if a new company is able to do to Google what Google did to some of the earliest leaders of search, including AltaVista and Excite.

For the moment, at least, Google is aiming for that most coveted position in technology: a platform that, like Microsoft's operating system, is so popular that outside software developers write programs, and Web developers build new Google-related services, that render the Google home page indispensable to the personal computer ecosystem.

"In the day, you'd hear that Microsoft was the evil empire, especially in Silicon Valley," said Brian Lent, the president of Medio Systems, a start-up in Seattle working on mobile-phone-based search. "Google is the new evil empire, because they're in such a powerful position in terms of control. They have potential monopolistic control over access to information."

Mr. Lent, who worked closely with Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, when all three were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, helped introduce Mr. Brin and Mr. Page to one of the company's earliest investors.

"I like and respect the Google guys," Mr. Lent said, "but let's just say that their ultimate aim seems to me to be, 'One Google under Google, for which it stands.' "

*Airhead* · 25-08-2005

I dont think Google will get the MS hating crowd, the ones (mainly Linux nerds) that are annyoed that they have to deal with Windows or Windows users on the job or anywhere else, when obviosuly UNIX is so much better at everything. They feel in minority in the great big world where the rest of us use Windows

Google is for now just a webpage and soon a IM-client. Its as it says in the article, easy to replace. An operating system is another matter.

*debro* · 28-08-2005

hmmm .. Borgle!

You will be invigilated!

*besmirch* · 29-08-2005

we will live .. we shall see :P

*code65536* · 29-08-2005

Google so far seems to have stuck with its priciples of openness, information for the good of the people, and do-no-evil. Perhaps I'm naive to think this, but I have a good feeling that this won't change anytime soon. I don't see Google as an evil conquerer. It is the liberating conquerer, and I welcome its ascendency (especially since, as a computer scientist, I really love their culture and devotion to algorithms; their free culture, BTW, will serve to hopefully buffer them from becoming evil).

*lui_gough* · 29-08-2005

It will reach into evermore larger crevices, and I don't mind. It seems to be helping mankind, but yeh ... eventually it will become hated. Still I don't mind a good search engine, eath imaging, e-mail, web accelerator and whatmore. Free it is

*debro* · 30-08-2005

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Originally Posted by code65536

I don't see Google as an evil conquerer. It is the liberating conquerer, and I welcome its ascendency (especially since, as a computer scientist, I really love their culture and devotion to algorithms; their free culture, BTW, will serve to hopefully buffer them from becoming evil).

Code64K has been assimilated by the Borgle!

Run for your lives! Every man, woman and child for themselves!

BeardedKirklander · 30-08-2005

Google kicks butt. Microsoft is the one true computer evil.

*Kenshin* · 30-08-2005

Maybe it's tecnology reporters in the US that are evil. They make dramatic stories out of anything.

*code65536* · 30-08-2005

@debro

But seriously, how often do you see a technology company seize market share based purely on merit? Google captured search not because it had the brainwas--er, marketing--arm of Apple and not because it had the brute force of Microsoft, but because it was simply just the best and cleanest.

All of Google's products have been, I think, pretty nice technologically. Google Maps, for example, is just plain cool. Gmail not only sports the best web mail interface, but also offers what others don't--POP3, SMTP, forwarding, and massive [constantly growing] space--so hey, if Gmail overthrows Hotmail or Yahoo mail, I won't be shedding any tears. And Google Talk, though spartan, is based on open standards, so I can access it using Gaim (which is nice for people who don't like Google's simplistic interface), and so if Google Talk trounces on the others, I'll be rejoicing.

@Kenshin

The media 1) more often than not does not really understand what they're reporting on and 2) needs to sensationalize everything (and these black and white good vs. evil things seem to be a nice forumula) in order to capture the ever-shortening attention span of the general public (not just of Americans, mind you; this is a world-wide problem).

*Kenshin* · 30-08-2005

I was actually comparing South Korean media with US media. The US media is especially liberal. European media is hardly as powerful. In South Korea, everything had been controlled by dictators so it was easy to engineer assassinations and kidnappings until very recently. They also used the media announcing the end of some jaebols as large as LG and Samsung but also to protect the interest of some other jaebols.

I was sarcastic about the fact those liberal media do nothing about much worse companies that help dictators kidnap, torture, and massacre innocent citizens while calling some evil. (My favorite TV drama in this summer is "The 5th Republic" of South Korea and I happen to be 10km from the very place that saw the small civil war in May, 1980.)

Calling US media was just a joke after B_K's remark.

*debro* · 31-08-2005

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Originally Posted by code65536

... Google ...

Borgle got to the top by doing the best, providing the best product. It's a competetive world, and borgle is the current winner.

The media generally don't understand what they are reporting, or if they do, they try to sensationalise it to keep an audience captivated.

Now Borgle are doing the bright thing and diversifying, aka moving their eggs out of the one basket.

Borgle are gonna be around for a long time, if they keep their current (brilliant) strategists.

Also, Google always give people a fair warning what they're upto, and there's never been proof that Google are doing anything underhanded. Advanced features like script blocking for certain sites ... etc, reporting is required to identify the site & the appropriate script code/etc. No-one has certained that google is collecting information on users & whatnot. Similarly, Gmail, while they may easily read Gmail users email, have you ever read your corporate IT policy. Sys admins have the right to ruffle through your online underwear draw looking for anything suspicious, similarly, google is required, sometimes by law to do just that.
Hint->Don't put anything compromisable on hardcopy/electronic.

*Airhead* · 31-08-2005

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Originally Posted by code65536

massive [constantly growing] space

I am currently using 6MB of my 2545 MB. I dont know how they do it though, all that storage must cost an awful lot. Sure they make billions but throwing it all on harddisks/tapes/monkeys writing notes or whatever they are using seems rather silly.

Also debro I must reiterate one of the cardinal rules of the forum, you must not confuse the modelatol! I had to Google (hah!) Borgle to conclude that it was nothing but your imagination.

*debro* · 31-08-2005

Expandable -> Network Storage Array.

How? You just said it. You are using 6MB of your allocated 2545MB. Most people use email predominantly for Text/small piccies. It's only student and Computer nerds that use more

By the time you, and everyone else, hits 2545MB, 2.5GB of HD space will cost a pitence and HD sizes will be in the tens of TB's

Besides, they probably buy their HD's in bulk lots from manufacturers

at a few dollars a piece

rather than $100 retail

*drpino* · 31-08-2005

yeah, i don't see the physical storage being an issue for the exact reasons debro already pointed out...

*Kenshin* · 31-08-2005

1GB or even 10GB email space per account can't cost too much considering some web-hard companies allow just as big space for uploads and downloads on the web which is far more useful than simple email accounts. Hardly any forum that has over 1GB web space really use the space well. One forum I visit most often use 12TB out of 17TB even though it has over 20,000 daily visitors. 12TB is extremely small for 20K+ people ready to spend hours per day downloading and uploading at 1-10MB/s. Meanwhile, their business makes nice profits. My own forums in some such websites right now have no more than 0 byte.

*Kenshin* · 31-08-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by debro

Besides, they probably buy their HD's in bulk lots from manufacturers

at a few dollars a piece

rather than $100 retail

Maybe US$20-US$30 is a more likely figure. Most (or all) of the HDD manufacturers use components made by others like all ODD manufacturers so there's a very clear limit to cost-saving. If Google email users have a total number of 1 billion accounts... and each account has an average 1MB files... that's still only 1PB requiring 2,000 500GB HDDs (for US$200K?). Almost anyone in the West perhaps can have that much at home if there's that much storage necessity.

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code65536 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: .us Posts: 5,931	Re: Google the new villian? Google so far seems to have stuck with its priciples of openness, information for the good of the people, and do-no-evil. Perhaps I'm naive to think this, but I have a good feeling that this won't change anytime soon. I don't see Google as an evil conquerer. It is the liberating conquerer, and I welcome its ascendency (especially since, as a computer scientist, I really love their culture and devotion to algorithms; their free culture, BTW, will serve to hopefully buffer them from becoming evil). __________________ "You don't have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when your own ox is being gored. You do have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when the government tries to censor the speech of those who are goring your ox." -Alan M. Dershowitz LiteOn Stuff: LiteOn F.A.Q. \| OmniPatcher \| DVD-Writer Overview \| Changing Write Strategies \| Crossflashing \| XFlash Utility General Stuff: DVD-Writer F.A.Q. \| Rules of the Optical Drive Forums \| Attaching Scans \| The rpc1.org Firmware Database Code Guys: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/ \| send us e-mail I Use: Firefox + ClassicFox \| Google Talk (Jabber) using Gaim for Windows \| Winamp \| EAC \| Google Earth C64K: My Travel Photos \| In Retirement...

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BeardedKirklander CD Freak Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2,949	Re: Google the new villian? Google kicks butt. Microsoft is the one true computer evil.

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30-08-2005	#13 (permalink)
code65536 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: .us Posts: 5,931	Re: Google the new villian? @debro But seriously, how often do you see a technology company seize market share based purely on merit? Google captured search not because it had the brainwas--er, marketing--arm of Apple and not because it had the brute force of Microsoft, but because it was simply just the best and cleanest. All of Google's products have been, I think, pretty nice technologically. Google Maps, for example, is just plain cool. Gmail not only sports the best web mail interface, but also offers what others don't--POP3, SMTP, forwarding, and massive [constantly growing] space--so hey, if Gmail overthrows Hotmail or Yahoo mail, I won't be shedding any tears. And Google Talk, though spartan, is based on open standards, so I can access it using Gaim (which is nice for people who don't like Google's simplistic interface), and so if Google Talk trounces on the others, I'll be rejoicing. @Kenshin The media 1) more often than not does not really understand what they're reporting on and 2) needs to sensationalize everything (and these black and white good vs. evil things seem to be a nice forumula) in order to capture the ever-shortening attention span of the general public (not just of Americans, mind you; this is a world-wide problem). __________________ "You don't have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when your own ox is being gored. You do have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when the government tries to censor the speech of those who are goring your ox." -Alan M. Dershowitz LiteOn Stuff: LiteOn F.A.Q. \| OmniPatcher \| DVD-Writer Overview \| Changing Write Strategies \| Crossflashing \| XFlash Utility General Stuff: DVD-Writer F.A.Q. \| Rules of the Optical Drive Forums \| Attaching Scans \| The rpc1.org Firmware Database Code Guys: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/ \| send us e-mail I Use: Firefox + ClassicFox \| Google Talk (Jabber) using Gaim for Windows \| Winamp \| EAC \| Google Earth C64K: My Travel Photos \| In Retirement...

30-08-2005	#14 (permalink)
Kenshin CDFreaks Resident Join Date: May 2002 Location: Near Seoul, South Korea Posts: 12,367	Re: Google the new villian? I was actually comparing South Korean media with US media. The US media is especially liberal. European media is hardly as powerful. In South Korea, everything had been controlled by dictators so it was easy to engineer assassinations and kidnappings until very recently. They also used the media announcing the end of some jaebols as large as LG and Samsung but also to protect the interest of some other jaebols. I was sarcastic about the fact those liberal media do nothing about much worse companies that help dictators kidnap, torture, and massacre innocent citizens while calling some evil. (My favorite TV drama in this summer is "The 5th Republic" of South Korea and I happen to be 10km from the very place that saw the small civil war in May, 1980.) Calling US media was just a joke after B_K's remark. __________________ Kill Confucius

31-08-2005	#17 (permalink)
debro Blown to smitherines Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: The c@ke mixer Posts: 9,838	Re: Google the new villian? Expandable -> Network Storage Array. How? You just said it. You are using 6MB of your allocated 2545MB. Most people use email predominantly for Text/small piccies. It's only student and Computer nerds that use more By the time you, and everyone else, hits 2545MB, 2.5GB of HD space will cost a pitence and HD sizes will be in the tens of TB's Besides, they probably buy their HD's in bulk lots from manufacturers at a few dollars a piece rather than $100 retail __________________ CDFreaks - Overwhelmed by Ignorance since 2005! We lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war! Click Here to sign up to the resistance movement! Viva La Resistance! Admitting that you've illegally downloaded movies/songs and need help to process/burn is comparable to robbing a bank, and walking into the bank the next day holding the bags of money to deposit them into your account. Don't be surprised if people laugh at you when you make the headlines.

31-08-2005	#18 (permalink)
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31-08-2005	#19 (permalink)
Kenshin CDFreaks Resident Join Date: May 2002 Location: Near Seoul, South Korea Posts: 12,367	Re: Google the new villian? 1GB or even 10GB email space per account can't cost too much considering some web-hard companies allow just as big space for uploads and downloads on the web which is far more useful than simple email accounts. Hardly any forum that has over 1GB web space really use the space well. One forum I visit most often use 12TB out of 17TB even though it has over 20,000 daily visitors. 12TB is extremely small for 20K+ people ready to spend hours per day downloading and uploading at 1-10MB/s. Meanwhile, their business makes nice profits. My own forums in some such websites right now have no more than 0 byte. __________________ Kill Confucius

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