Google loses money by placing it's ads as that could have been a paying customers ad in that position that they would have actually had outside money coming in paying for.
No they don't. IN FACT, they're taking the bids others pay up by doing that. This means they're artificially charging other browser makers more per click because now they have to outbid Google. If that's not evil I don't know what is.
Only so in the western world. Buddhist countries, especially Theravada ones, lack that. That's why they're much more saner religions than western ones.
Google was fully aware of it. Companies give REPORTS of what they do. You don't just buy services and not expect them not to report what they have they have done or what they're going to do. That would be just waste of money.
They didn't "punish" themselves in any way. Whole google.com should be removed from search results since they were gaming it. They didn't even punish it for search terms like browser. It's still on top thanks to ad spots!
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Copyright has nothing to do with payment or lack of it. Copyright just gives creator the right to control his work.
No, if they were Evangelical Kopimists, then they would violate GPL just like every other copyright license.
That island shooter is Norwegian.
News at 10. Google gets paid by advertisers for ad clicks, not ad views.
You're being ignorant. Google gets paid for impressions if they're image ads or video ads.
Google loses money by placing it's ads as that could have been a paying customers ad in that position that they would have actually had outside money coming in paying for.
No they don't. IN FACT, they're taking the bids others pay up by doing that. This means they're artificially charging other browser makers more per click because now they have to outbid Google. If that's not evil I don't know what is.
No, they can seize all they want. Religions don't exempt you from laws.
Only so in the western world. Buddhist countries, especially Theravada ones, lack that. That's why they're much more saner religions than western ones.
Creative Commons license, and GPL for that matter, are pro-copyright by their very definition. Only public domain is anti-copyright.
Which means they're only bringing the price up for other browsers while they themselves don't need to pay anything. Yeah, that's completely not evil!
Google was fully aware of it. Companies give REPORTS of what they do. You don't just buy services and not expect them not to report what they have they have done or what they're going to do. That would be just waste of money.
Yeah, I only contracted a hitman to kill your wife. I did nothing wrong myself!
Yep, you remember when Steve Jobs said "Do no evil is a load of crap"? He was absolutely correct about Google.
They didn't "punish" themselves in any way. Whole google.com should be removed from search results since they were gaming it. They didn't even punish it for search terms like browser. It's still on top thanks to ad spots!
+1 this is so spot on. It amazes me that you guys let Google get away with this but when others do the same it's suddenly bad.