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Remember when Google used to be one of the good guys? (infosec.pub)
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[–] meliodas_101@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's like a life cycle of a company when it goes public it doesn't works for itself or it's products then it's just numbers game.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So what's the 2025 1999 Google?

[–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We don't have one. Running a search engine is expensive and you can no longer just run on endless amounts of VC. You need a way to make money somehow. Kagi might be the closest (I haven't tried it because Google is still generally usable for me, but I've heard good things), but it's not free.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

You can still run on endless amounts of VC. You just have to pretend to be the next big thing. Right now that’s AI.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

From a perspective of "new tech that hasn't solved monetization or is still looking for investors/a buyer/ipo while it burns away at venture capital"?

Probably the free versions of Ai. The AI wars are peak right now with all the free samples you can get.

Perplexity searches live internet and is pretty good at it. Gpt does too I think, but isn't as ready with the sources.

You have to think of it like tech inflation. Yeah, they're probably tracking you and stealing your data, etc But in today's internet, that's the bare minimum of a startup (compared to 1999, when tracking was a red flag)

[–] NaibofTabr 18 points 2 weeks ago

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago

No, they always sucked.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

"More Google!" was a red flag

[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Before they took the "No" out of their slogan "Do No Evil".

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They just reorganized the slogan, it’s now:

No, DO evil

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's centralised, you have no guarantee it won't get worse.

We need a decentralised search engine.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

We need a decentralised search engine.

... Thats all the people outside. It's really inefficient.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly I don't, from the time I've started using google its always had ads and such.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone's talking like the original Google was some sort of divine design philosophy, but actually it was just that both of them were backend people, and that was all they knew how to do in HTML.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is kind of a glib take.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can't take credit for it. It's really Sergey Brin's glib take.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

You get what you pay for.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No. It never was. googol has always been garbage but people are stupid and jumped on the bandwagon.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm guessing you're too young to remember the time before Google existed.