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Getting that invite made email cool again. And they promised to not be evil, and started to develop loads of cool things and phones you could do anything with... then realized being evil is more profitable.
Should have seen it coming. Of course a company who's main source of revenue is selling ads and positions in search results is going to end up fucking the entire Internet up for money.
"don't be evil" was a false promise. a gimmick. a marketing slogan. in practice, the policy was lost long before even the first pre-ipo options were promised to a new hire... way back around the time larry or sergey first day-dreamed of cashing-in 'some day'.
I think when the creators put it out it was very much not evil. It has since been turned to the dark side by its new owners.
I like the company from the Upload TV series's motto "don't be evil, obviously"