3 responses to “Google is the new Microsoft, says The Economist”
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It was Google’s agreement to censor web pages and kowtow to Beijing that probably upset me—that ‘Do no evil’ didn’t extend as far as ‘let’s get some Chinese on board otherwise someone else will take them.’ Motive: profit, not freedom of information. For me, that was revealing; and should China become free, I wonder if future Chinese citizens will remember Google as a collaborator against their freedoms.
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I understand why you might feel like that, Jack, and I’m not without sympathy for your point of view.I do have to admit that I feel torn on this issue, hence the time it’s taken me to reply to your comment.
I guess I never bought the “do no evil” line from Google on the one hand, so I don’t feel betrayed. But I also am not sure about whether it should stay out of China, or more to the point what its decision to self-censor in China means to me.
Is it wrong? If so is it on the basis of its hypocrisy or that it is wrong to do business with China? If it is what should we do? Think slightly less of it, not buy their stock, boycott their services?
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Google has a long way to go before they become the new Microsoft.
At the moment all Google really has is search, ads and popularity.
Microsoft has dozens of highly successful products and outside of the ‘techies’ they do enjoy popularity.
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