Nickname: DOGGERAL

Review: Google must be doing something right because it is ruffling the feathers of some real biggies. Personally,I think Google is marvelous.

Date reviewed: Apr 28, 2006 12:09 AM

Nickname: Just an average Google fan

Review: Google is one of the few major companies left that actually still gets it: keep your primary customers happy & the money will follow. Everything they present for the average user is clean, simple, quick, efficient, friendly, & best of all, dependable. What an amazing concept! They treat their employees so well they have more applicants than they can use. Yet other companies are mad that employees leave to work for a better company? Oh, boo hoo. How many other U.S. companies still put the customer first? And treat workers like decent human beings? One of their new "enemies," Amazon, keeps complicating their site & fouling up CS more and more, just for one example. Google doesn't even worry about how their name has already become a generic. cf. Coca-Cola (r) or Kleenex (r). But they're evil because they've made some concessions to China? As if no other U.S. corp., not to mention the U.S. govt., hasn't. At least Google has an honorable reason. Sheesh.

Date reviewed: Apr 26, 2006 9:09 AM

Nickname: Mark

Review: It's become increasingly clear that Google has had to pick constituencies it wants to please, and pick others where they're willing to compromise on the credo "do no evil." If you're an end user who likes the idea of everything being free and open, then Google's the place for you. If you're a publisher who depends on your work for your income, or an activist who believes in fighting to reform China, then Google's actions can seem like a betrayal. I use Google regularly, though in some rare instances I've found that alternative search engines work better.

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2006 9:37 PM

Nickname: cherone.co.uk

Review: In my opinion, Google is better then any other search engine. What's funny is I wouldn't have found this article if it wasn't for Google desktop. I don't see the problem with how they do business, they started out small and worked hard for their users, giving us ( the end user) new products that actually work, for free. I think now they're so big, they are a target for jealous competitors that want to be at the top of the market but just can't compete. Google search is my start page and it always will be. Or will it?!

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2006 3:06 PM

Nickname: A

Review: All I saw on Google was not any copies of Miro's work, rather the Google logo rendered in the style Miro used. The article is misleading and should be checked again.

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2006 12:27 PM

Nickname: Session

Review: @ newnimproved: How has Google changed the free nature of the Internet? As far as I'm aware, nobody has to use any of their products, and even if they do, they are all free. Google has reached their level of success by doing what they do well, unlike a certain other company which tied their software in with hardware and actively monopolized the market. If you don't want to use Google, there's an alternative for every product. Use them instead.

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2006 3:41 AM

Nickname: jakecolly

Review: That Perfect 10 thing is ridiculous. Why did they choose only to sue Google for using thumbnail pics? Why would an adult site want to reduce the number of people directed to their site through Google?

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2006 3:22 AM

Nickname: Cow Girl

Review: In the late '90s "Amazon" was used as a verb, to mean crushed by a powerful competitor. So many startups were amazoned back then. Tough competition is here to stay. Only the big guys keep changing.

Date reviewed: Apr 25, 2006 2:15 AM

Nickname: PennyWrangler

Review: Google has a giant target painted on their back because they are now rich and famous. Happens to all successes. My only regret is that I didn't move out West 10 years ago and get in on the ground floor!

Date reviewed: Apr 24, 2006 6:27 PM

Nickname: Bill Gates

Review: So much for the "Do no evil" motto. That went out the window with their IPO, where Sergey and Brin got their first taste of rich-man cheating and the bloodlust has never left their lips. I laugh at every person who uses GMail. If I wanted the biggest company since Microsoft to rifle through my e-mail, I'd just forward it all to AOL or Yahoo or the FBI. In case you haven't noticed, Google has produced a lot of crap, too. Witness Froogle, GBase, etc. Even Google Maps is pretty lame compared to alternative sites. Once Google got too rich for its own good, it just became another Microsoft, with two new Bills instead of one. Pathetic. Look at the recent suit it settled for the AdSense fraud. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Date reviewed: Apr 24, 2006 5:07 PM