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[FMH]

Biotoxic_hazard_835, on 13 April 2012 - 20:43, said:

This pretty much sums it up. C'mon people if you don't like Google don't use their products and don't invest in their stock, but stop posting useless propaganda and hate campaigns.

Please don't kill me. I'm sorry for spreading the factual propaganda. Microsft was paying me to do it.
I have taken my money out of Google, and invested it in Stardocks. Hate campaign ended.

[Solid Knight]

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If there is a definition of evil, it's taking advantage of others for personal gain.

That's the definition of business.

[+Majesticmerc]

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

Any sufficiently large company becomes evil eventually, it's how capitalism works. I implore you to name a single top-100 company that couldn't be described as evil. To think that any successful company is looking out for anyone but themselves is naive.

Some companies are more idealistic than others, and personally I find Google's transparency and desire to push the web forward inspiring, but let's not trick ourselves into thinking that their ideals are less important than their profit margin

[+remixedcat]

NOTHING CAN BE MORE EVIL THEN PRINTERS

[+simrat]

simplezz, on 13 April 2012 - 17:52, said:

Have you watched The Social Network? If Google is evil, Zuckerberg and CO are the anti-christ.

If you take " the social network " story as truth and fact, than sir you should stop living under rock. It is as true as "pirates of silicon valley", fake.

[FMH]

simrat, on 15 April 2012 - 05:48, said:

If you take " the social network " story as truth and fact, than sir you should stop living under rock. It is as true as "pirates of silicon valley", fake.

It is quite dramatized, but the lawsuits shown in the movie are real.

[+Lovell]

[morden]

the biggest problem with google is that even I DON'T WANT TO USE the services they offer I cannot fully opt-out... you're always under their umbrella somehow, like that useless StreetView… it's pretty nonsensical that i'm providing content for a service I not use, to a company i'm all about to boycott

and it's the same story with all their products and services... lucky that G+ and GTV is where it should be: draining down the sink

[HoochieMamma]

rajputwarrior, on 13 April 2012 - 17:06, said:

i've personally have already accepted google as my overlords a couple of years ago so im fine with it.

I too have accepted this inevitability.

[cork1958]

Jdawg683, on 13 April 2012 - 17:14, said:

haha yep. i use plenty of google products. i hate to say i love google.

Nope!

Don't have a single Google product anywhere and don't even have Google saved in my favorites/bookmarks search engine folder, of which there are currently 18 different one's saved!

Google has and always will suck a**!! IMO

I love going against what you all think is so cool and great!!

[+simrat]

FMH, on 15 April 2012 - 11:03, said:

It is quite dramatized, but the lawsuits shown in the movie are real.

It is one sided story, nobody knew what really happened, lawsuits are indeed real, but what happened in their personal life, only they know.

[Shadowzz]

cork1958, on 15 April 2012 - 12:07, said:

Nope!

Don't have a single Google product anywhere and don't even have Google saved in my favorites/bookmarks search engine folder, of which there are currently 18 different one's saved!

Google has and always will suck a**!! IMO

I love going against what you all think is so cool and great!!

I'm about to drop Google in its entirety too.
Bing isnt as good as Google when it comes to search results in Holland.
But today i found out that Streetview is not supported in IE10 anymore, while it has always worked properly. I'm sick and tired of Google abusing its position to battle Microsoft over the backs of their users!
I know MS launched the Scroogled campaign, but they arent bugging me with it. Google is, no proper support from them to WP, they seem to counter everything they can. Which is quite frankly just getting anoying.
I used Google for search and maps mainly. Guess I'm making the move to Microsoft today, and I do hope many follow to leave Google.
Hopefully they will start realizing that pushing away the people that made them big isnt the best thing to do! Respect your users Google or bite me!
They forget the only thing that made Google big, is us techies. Not marketing, nothing else.

We (your users) made you big and mighty, we (your users) can take it away from you!

EDIT: actually just tried google maps in Ironware and no surprise, it works a dozen times better and smoother then maps ever did on IE. Way to go Google... jeez. Your constant abusing of your market position will be your end, I do hope the EU and US will put you in a similar decade long anti-trust as Microsoft has gone through. I'm sick and tired of this game Google plays... Its only making it worse for us consumers/users.
I will actively promote people to use other services then Google's, in a last attempt to make Google realize they should stick to the values they started with over a decade ago. And that its not all about money and market-size.

[+techbeck]

Shadowzz, on 28 April 2013 - 22:22, said:

I'm about to drop Google in its entirety too.
Bing isnt as good as Google when it comes to search results in Holland.
But today i found out that Streetview is not supported in IE10 anymore, while it has always worked properly. I'm sick and tired of Google abusing its position to battle Microsoft over the backs of their users!
I know MS launched the Scroogled campaign, but they arent bugging me with it. Google is, no proper support from them to WP, they seem to counter everything they can. Which is quite frankly just getting anoying.
I used Google for search and maps mainly. Guess I'm making the move to Microsoft today, and I do hope many follow to leave Google.
Hopefully they will start realizing that pushing away the people that made them big isnt the best thing to do! Respect your users Google or bite me!
They forget the only thing that made Google big, is us techies. Not marketing, nothing else.

We (your users) made you big and mighty, we (your users) can take it away from you!

Known issues with IE10 and Street View....

http://support.googl...&answer=2819392
http://support.googl...en&answer=21849

Works fine for me.

[+Majesticmerc]

Why did you resurrect a year old thread to rant about the fact that IE doesn't load Google maps properly?

Are you sure the problem you're having isn't an issue with your Flash installation, rather than Google maliciously blocking IE10? Streetview uses Flash.

[+techbeck]

Majesticmerc, on 28 April 2013 - 22:36, said:

Why did you resurrect a year old thread to rant about the fact that IE doesn't load Google maps properly?

Are you sure the problem you're having isn't an issue with your Flash installation, rather than Google maliciously blocking IE10? Streetview uses Flash.

I posed links above. Street View works 100 percent for me in IE10. Know issues with this dating back several months.