[VikingCoder]

Google never went through bad PR before Sundar?

Sunday became CEO on August 10, 2015.

Google+ was launched in 2011. (And the "real name" policy was a PR disaster.)

Google Reader was shut down in 2013. (You can hardly find a PR disaster that people in the tech world complain about more.)

Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe had an anti-poaching agreement that finally got settled in 2015, but they were getting bad press before that.

"Right to be forgotten" bad press was in 2014 and before.

[posharma]

There were a lot of other good things going that masked these. The recent "PR botch ups" are creating more damage. The most famous e.g. is reacting to ChatGPT's hype and rushing to do a demo and then messing it up. It wasn't so much messing up the demo that caught they eye; it was how Google rushed/reacted to do it esp. when Google is considered to be at the forefront of AI. Again, optics. Besides Sundar hasn't come out with anything impressive in the last few years. It's ok to just keep the lights on, but at least don't create bad optics.

[whiplash451]

Actually, I don’t think it’s OK to just keep the lights on.

[posharma]

Hahha. Sure.

[cyberlurker]

When did they drop “don’t be evil”?

[ProAm]

2015