Plenty of people burnt by G's often parasitic and monopolistic forms of monetisation. E.g: placing "search this site" in SERPs for brand queries (actually performing yet another Google search + Ad's) to get more adwords ad's in front of users. Forcing brands to bid on their own names in search results by not protecting trademark claims in any cohesive way.
Suffocating industries with verticals, with poor /no support and then moating, (Think local search and Yelp/online Yellow Pages").
The Binghoo vs. Google pissing contest, (They both look like bullies).
Hijacking loans, mortgages, credit cards, new cars, (and other 'big ticket' items) with aggregated results yet cracking down on aggregators algorithmically in core organic claiming it's not good for the user, (Double standards).
G +... fake numbers they are throwing around when they've clearly strong armed users and 'advertisers' such as the Google Places migration.
Google reader...
Lots more, but generally it's the "Do no evil" BS. Where folks feel hoodwinked into believing G was anything more than a money making machine, even at the cost of their own integrity.
I blame Mayer for the mess in search and Schmidt for the borg like focus on $$$ and social, at any cost.
Amazon runs all of the Amazon.com web servers on EC2 hosts (and has since 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...). They've just made sure that they have enough hosts in each of the other AZs to withstand an outage.
That would be the ultimate testament, maybe the only stunt they could pull to PR themselves out of this mess.. if www.amazon.com ran on the same set of EC2 servers and systems as us muggles
"Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries" - I'd hope so, compared to traditional corporations like GM for instance; they have similar operating income BUT, Google have roughly a quarter less employees.
They need to be paying high salaries to attract top talent, as an incumbent operator, but their contribution to the larger economic picture is less than impressive, (Unless tax avoidance impresses you).
Hi mooism2,
(a) We paid the company $5625.00 in March 2011. They have not delivered us a single bit of data as agreed. We are now over a year down the road and seeking a refund, but have been told they wish to complete the project they overshot by almost a year, (More stalling for time).
The company refuse, outright to issue a refund.
(b) By linking to their site and in turn backlinking to this post, we hope to be able to get visibility for their company name, "Fornova" in Google SERPs and warn other companies and startups of their business ethics. Specifically we intend, over time to oust both the company and it's management. Amir Freund, Dori Stein and Michael Rubanovich.
