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by heavyset_go 1161 days ago
Look at the consensus about Google when it comes up in the news or other articles posted to Reddit's most popular subreddits. It's not good. Then look at how technical subreddits talk about Google. It's even worse.

Even popular science and tech press is highly critical of Google, and no longer just publishes the company's press releases with gushing endorsement.

Back in like 2014, I agreed with your sentiment and even said the same thing myself. Back then, popular sentiment towards Google was very positive and there was a lot of excitement, but generally, the nerdier someone was when it came to computers, the more likely they were to be at least critical of Google if not hostile towards them.

Now it's different and people are looking at Google like they look at Facebook or Comcast.