[kbenson]

It's almost as if over a decade or more if time that people can see the result of behavior they didn't see as problematic initially.

Or that google might have changed how they operate in small ways as they are steered differently.

Expecting any one person to still have the same opinion of any one other person a decade later might be asking a lot. It's nothing strange that a community of people would have differing thoughts on a whole company of people and product and policies.

[ipaddr]

Google was a hedge against Microsoft which was a hedge against IBM.

The tech world is always running from one monopoly to another.

People should think differently about Google because it is different and now has become the monopoly.