I’m either fortunate or unfortunate enough to have gone through a couple of significant corporate cycles in the world of business in recent decades. In the 1980s IBM started as the most respected company in the industry and ended as that decade’s “Evil Empire.” In the ’90s, and over what seemed to be a much shorter period of time, Microsoft went down a similar path. And now all eyes are on Google, who is everyone’s darling today, but is clearly showing a disturbing dark side.
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Google: The New Evil Empire?
Posted by: Rob Enderle November 25, 2005 03:30 AMI’m either fortunate or unfortunate enough to have gone through a couple of significant corporate cycles in the world of business in recent decades. In the 1980s IBM started as the most respected company in the industry and ended as that decade’s “Evil Empire.” In the ’90s, and over what seemed to be a much shorter period of time, Microsoft went down a similar path. And now all eyes are on Google, who is everyone’s darling today, but is clearly showing a disturbing dark side.