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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
How is google being evil , again? I must have missed that.
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Because corporations are bad so really big corporations
must be evil. At least that's the unspoken assumption most people seem to be operating under.
The subject of this thread is right though, Google is no Microsoft. Where Microsoft used its dominant market position to force pc makers to buy copies of Windows (which included heavy Internet Explorer integration), Google offers most of its products for free. Google is big and stays big because it's making better products than its competitors, not because it's taking unfair advantage of its size.
No one is forced to use GoogleMaps over YahooMaps, but have you tried YahooMaps lately? Ya...