Comment by alephnerd

> Conspiracy theory: one or more companies are background manufacturing Google hate

Personally, I believe that Google's issues are just a general issue of tech debt and creeping complexity that is common in all organizations.

That said, Amazon was a victim of a strategy similar to your conspiracy theory

In 2019, the WSJ [0] exposed how Walmart, Oracle and Simon Property Group were funding and astroturfing anti-Amazon groups.

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-grassroots-campaign-to-take-d...