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Comment by d0ne

15 years ago

Google is "good"?

http://www.schneier.com/essay-306.html

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/

https://www.recordedfuture.com/ ( Google and In-Q-Tel both major investors )

http://thestockmarketwatch.com/stock-market-news/recent-even...

http://xsreviews.co.uk/2011/05/google-to-lose-500m-to-antitr...

Could keep going for a while. My point is simple: It is easy to forget the "bad" when everyone focuses on the "good"

Which of them is evil?

The closest the is the anti-trust settlement, but the reporting around that is kind of murky. I've never seen a proper report of exactly what it related to.

The others are arguably good. For example, the Schneier article is about how Google has a interface to Gmail to allow it to retrieve data when it receives a warrant. That was what got hacked, but I think saying that makes it evil is a pretty long stretch.