[SmokingJoe]

Google is evil. Pure and simple. Obama let them get away with murder.

[100American]

Read George Gilder’s book Google - Life after the fall

all of this and more is exposed there by a very smart man who opened my eyes personally to what Google really is and where it is going

Short version, why do you think that they give you so much “free” stuff?

Because it is the data they really crave and by handing it over daily by using their “stuff” they build immense data profiles and portfolios that are fungible (money making) selling them to advertisers to profile us and push their merchandise at us constantly

Ad Revenue is the common name for this

I stopped using Google Search long ago as what you see there is what they “want” you to see, and how you respond and continue using it tells them more and more

Evil, pure evil in intent and practice

[FewsOrange]

“In 2010, Google took over 11,500 lines of Java software code developed by Oracle-owned Sun Company. “

No they didn’t.

[Ancesthntr]

Break it up. It, Twitter, FB and YouTube (yeah, I know, Google owns it), and any other internet-related provider that censors content in ANY way (other than blatantly illegal stuff like child porn). I am sick and tired of these companies abusing the protections they are offered IF they don’t regulate content, and they spit in everyone’s face and do exactly that for the political purposes of those running those companies. That they are liberal/Leftist is of no particular concern - I would say the same if they were conservative/libertarian.

Google depends est!

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[MrEdd]

Code that runs useful programs was put under copyright which can keep being renewed until seventy years beyond the death of the writer instead of under patent which lasts fourteen years and can only be renewed for a second fourteen year period where it belongs. All through pretty blatant corruption.

The author of this drivel doesn't want the Supreme court to restore intellectual property rights to the limited duration protection which the founders intended. Instead the author of this stupid crap wants the supreme court to twist intellectual property rights in a way that benefits whoever’s paid him to write this.

[semimojo]

No problem, however: Google can just free ride someone else’s network.

Only if the network owner wants them too. Google doesn't get any special network treatment.

These inputs – networks, code, and data – make Google billions of dollars in revenues every year, and the company doesn’t have to pay a red cent for them.

The author may not have noticed but Google has invested hundreds of billions developing the features that attract users - the source of this data.

[Fedora]

Google also uses public libraries to skirt copyright laws by scanning books and putting them online without the authors’ permission.

[SharpRightTurn]

It would be fine with me if Oracle were able to reduce Google to the size of a lemonade stand.