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Re: news from Google
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:47:38 -0600
I know it's off-topic, but I'm impressed with the idea that a public corporation can spend 8 figures on something that has essentially $0 ROI and multiple people here can find bad things about it. I'm shocked someone didn't say "but that's only 0.0000$WHATEVER percent of their profit!". Google does many things which can be argued as evil, or not, but I would say this is very much not one of them.
Indeed !! BTW, my reference to "Evil" was a sarcasm in relation to those who constantly need to label a company like Google as such, I don't even find Microsoft to be "Evil". Well they have been trying that for many years :-) ... Also for clarification, I didn't find that piece of information from Google on their home page or any reference from a visible site, I don't believe they are doing it just to generate some noise or PR. I just received a message from them for being their user saying: "Hello, As we near the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for the time, energy, commitment, and trust you've shared with us in 2009. With sharing in mind, this year we've decided to do something a little different. We hope you'll find it fits the spirit of the holiday season. We're looking forward to working with you to build lasting success in 2010. Happy Holidays, Your Google Team" The link to that page was embedded in the "something a little different" text. To be frank, for all the years I've been suffering with MS-DOS, and the many versions of Windoze, I never/ever received a message from Microsoft thanking me for being their user/customer ... Cheers Jorge
Current thread:
- Re: news from Google, (continued)
- Re: news from Google Michael Painter (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Seth Mattinen (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Joe Greco (Dec 14)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Ken Chase (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Corey Travioli (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Ken Chase (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Scott Howard (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Bret Clark (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Matthew Petach (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Hank Nussbacher (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Scott Howard (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google JC Dill (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Bruce Williams (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Christopher Morrow (Dec 22)