Robert Cringely has some harsh words for Google. In essence, he calls them a bunch money grubbing clansmen who have no transparency and thieve from the little guy in niche markets. This is a far cry from the usual love fest he slathers onto the company that aims to “do no evil”.

Still, what do you expect? They make no claims to “do good”. Google is nothing if not paranoid, dilusional and secretive. They offer no explanation about how: their search results are calculated; their ads are served; their advertising rates are set; their fraudulent clickthroughs are detected and extracted; their payments are calculated…

Google is an evil, autocratic company that wants to be the Philosopher King of our virtual Kallipolis. In reality, they are merely the first 21st century advertising firm. Everything this company does can be boiled down to one motive: serving you more, better ads.

What a wretched company.

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