Google vs. Evil

wideangle writes "'The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business. Take Brin's decision to refuse all alcohol and tobacco advertising. The fact that Google accepts advertising for adult content sites is an intriguing commentary on Brin's morality: Cigarettes and booze are evil; porn is not. It's a policy that would become progressively harder to defend were Google to go public.'"

Comments

How to decide if something is immoral

[pardasaniman]

If it is something you wouldn't do in front of your parents/kids.

Or if it is something that you wouldn't want your children to do.

It's immoral.

Re:Porn? Nah, you don't have a problem (chuckle)

[Mulletproof]

"No, porn isn't as outright deadily as cigrettes or alcohol"

Must not have caught that part huh? Nighty-Night.