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I'm pretty reluctant to be this flattening towards Gabe Newell and Valve.
Once Google was seen as one of the good companies. "Googling" became synonimous with searching on the internet. Most if not all competitors went bankrupt. When Google was accused of monopolistic behavior, its fans treated it as an attack on "perfection". Google Chrome was a fast browser requiring less memory than its competitors. People saw them owning YouTube as a good thing. The most common form of toxicity towards new users in the Linux community was only providing lmgtfy links to them (I did get the occasional custom WinXP ISO torrent link too). Even their motto was don't be evil.
And then came the YouTube content ID system. And then they were reluctant to throw off the far-right from their platform for breaking their ToS during Gamergate. Then they dropped the motto. Then they put ads into the Google search results. Then they let the far-right control their platform before the 2024 elections. And also they're pushing AI hard.
Will Gabe Newell stick to his ideas, or get an anyeurism and join the Trump oligarchs?
How do you write all this and fail to mention that search doesn't even fucking work anymore?
I'm not arguing with you. But internet searching aDOEA NOT WORK ANYMROE.
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Not perfect, but better than Google.
No it is t.
DuckDuckGo is a horrible search engine.
Google is a horrible search engine.
Bing is horrible.
They all fucking suck.
So, you are afraid to have an opinion in case future events make it invalid?
How do you support literally anything with this mindset?
Elon Musk might be haunted by the three spirits of not being racist this christmas and give away all his possessions. Nonetheless, I'm happy to call him wanker today, because it's an accurate representation of reality at present.
It is fair to compare Google to Valve only in a category of "once been good". Other than that, 2 different companies with 2 different mottos.
Thing is Valve is a private company with a flat structure and shared ownership that encourages moving between departments.
Basically, it's just a club of people doing whatever they want and they happen to all love videogames.