Hah

> 6. You can make money without doing evil

implies that they're doing it for fun then I guess?

you make some money without doing evil and some more in other ways

Technically, you can make money without doing evil.

I heard they actually changed to this wording from the original, which for a long time was "Don't be evil."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

You heard? It was a fairly big controversy when they did get around to removing it.

Yep, I remember seeing the headline. I clicked in, read the sub-head and first few sentences, hit the back button, and moved on, having duly noted the passing of one more milestone in Google's long descent. The reasons why it sucks, why they eventually did it and the vague, implausible PR justifications for doing it were all self-derivable from the headline and sub-head.

I doubt I missed anything of significant substance, but didn't want to assert factual knowledge, so I just linked the Wikipedia article (which I also didn't read into). Don't interpret my skipping the rumination step with excusing or dismissing Google's decline. I don't need to rubber-neck every step of a slow-mo, multi-year train wreck to lament that it happened and update my priors regarding Google.

Or obligation.

> You can make money without doing evil.

Neat! I rate this sentence at 7/10 on my scale of shit American companies say. The top score is currently held by Palantir with their X bio "Software that dominates."

> 6. You can make money without doing evil.

You can but well, it's more profitable the other way around....

See if you can raise it as an issue. There's clearly a grave errors on the page.

I was thinking to cynically ask a Googler I know to raise an internal ticket. The new page could be just:

  1. Stop asking pesky questions.
  2. Add Gemini buttons into everything.
  3. If problems, see 1.

Google only moves fast and breaks things that matter.

Their sunsetting of manifest v2 appears fast to me and updating some corporate philosophy has apparently no business impact.

Archive it before they memoryhole it.

Yeah I'd expect someone here will note it and page will get a "deserved" update

"You can make money without doing evil [but that's not what we do]"

What is evil about this?