2026-11-10 16:48 UTC
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@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social 2026-11-10 16:58
@stux@mstdn.social
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 16:57
@stux@mstdn.social I think we all knew it was bullshit then, but for some reason we gave them the benefit of a doubt. Won't ever make that mistake again.
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@StumpyTheMutt@social.linux.pizza 2026-11-10 17:05
@stux@mstdn.social They may just as well left off the "Don't."
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@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2026-11-10 17:08
@stux@mstdn.social
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party 2026-11-10 17:31
@stux@mstdn.social Sadly, since that time, Google behave as if the first word in this slogan has been removed.
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@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us 2026-11-10 17:44
@stux@mstdn.social We realized long ago that—to borrow very aptly from Mark Carney—this was simply a sign in their window that nobody believed. All that changed was that they took the sign down out of the window. Same thing with all the companies that “settled” with the US government over DEI policies. They were just signs in the window nobody really believed.
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@Lenny_sdad@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 18:06
@stux@mstdn.social i think that has changed
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@_the_cloud@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 18:39
@stux@mstdn.social You could rearrange the letters to spell "bet on Devil".
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@isukun@tkz.one 2026-11-10 18:43
@stux@mstdn.social Yeap... The irony...
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@andremastodon@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 18:44
@stux@mstdn.social That was when Google was just a bunch of geeks.
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@htpcnz@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 18:54
@stux@mstdn.social one doesn't need to have a slogan like "don't be a serial killer" to not be one. If someone does have that as their slogan, that is because they are one. These guys saw what m$ were doing and decided lets make a slogan based on public sentiment to get people to our side while we do even worse.
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@alanthecampbell@techhub.social 2026-11-10 18:56
@stux@mstdn.social Sergei seems to have become a proper arsehole, unless he always had that in him.
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@fortius@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 18:56
@stux@mstdn.social Don't be google !!!
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@clickhere@mastodon.ie 2026-11-10 19:05
@stux@mstdn.social These days:
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@Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social 2026-11-10 19:28
@stux@mstdn.social I read that on the day google appeared and realized that they were planning on being evil. I have never used their search engine even once and I have as much as possible not engaged with them.
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@nilz@norden.social 2026-11-10 19:47
@stux@mstdn.social Blinde veto! #anagram
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@speedy777@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-11-10 19:51
@stux@mstdn.social Don‘t think of a pink elephant…
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@WorldTravelerAll7@mastodon.world 2026-11-10 19:55
@stux@mstdn.social i don't know when google changed its slogan from "don't be evil" to "do the right thing", but that, too, is long in the rearview mirror
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@Jefverbeeck@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 19:57
@stux@mstdn.social
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@obscurestar@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 19:58
@stux@mstdn.social It was "Do No Evil" but later they corrected their spelling to "Do know Evil"
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@aykatoollab@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 20:05
@stux@mstdn.social , one data point that fits here: GEO is the work of making a business findable, correctly described and citable in answers written by AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews (Google Search Central: AI features and your website). Are you seeing the same with your clients?
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@umbe@mamot.fr 2026-11-10 20:31
@stux@mstdn.social
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@ml@eldritch.cafe 2026-11-10 20:35
@stux@mstdn.social Sauron ago.
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@rskrg@mastodon.bida.im 2026-11-10 20:43
@stux@mstdn.social Dont be live
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@rskrg@mastodon.bida.im 2026-11-10 20:45
@stux@mstdn.social Don't be live
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@mattiz6276@mastodon.uno 2026-11-10 21:04
@stux@mstdn.social Evilness can be subjective.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2026-11-10 21:18
@stux@mstdn.social @bieberium@infosec.exchange It was bullshit then too.
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@tarraccas@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 21:24
@stux@mstdn.social An ex of mine actually believed this slogan. Gezus!
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@rylandgrace@mastodon.social 2026-11-10 21:37
@stux@mstdn.social de-googling (other than still using Android) was probably the best thing I've done for my privacy in years. I feel so much digitally cleaner. This was my journey of leaving the main Google services I was using day to day, and what I'm using now. Shame about the recent Proton fiasco, but I'm not sure I'm quite ready to migrate all of that stuff yet. Luckily I put in the effort of using my own domain this time around so moving elsewhere won't be anywhere near as painful!
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@feike@toot.re 2026-11-10 22:22
@stux@mstdn.social some people believe so strongly in their god, that they can morally justify everything they do, because it is the will of the Lord. So, Google isnt evil, they just dont call it that.
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@Th3G3ntl3m4n@mstdn.social 2026-11-10 23:35
@stux@mstdn.social And now their "Evil" has manifested itself into destroying natural habitats for wildlife, and leaving the land scarred for life, to build fucking data centers. #FuckGoogle #FuckAI #DestroyDataCenters
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-11-11 00:09
@stux@mstdn.social Now, that's the pick-up line. Wait: did anybody really believe it was serious? Really?
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@TooMuchCoffee@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 00:15
@stux@mstdn.social You can blame the Finance function for that. They always lobby for short term thinking to goose revenue and get their bonus. As one of my managers said, "They count the beans. They don't make the beans."
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@DEWLine@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 00:45
@stux@mstdn.social That slogan has to be reinstalled as part of the OS of management, if the company's to become fit to survive again. Soon.
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@bamfingle@cyberplace.social 2026-11-11 01:21
@stux@mstdn.social Now they are clear cutting forests and forcing students to use AI, among other things.
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@Irisherself@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 01:39
@stux@mstdn.social oh Stux you are so right it feels like several lifetimes ago 🙀😿
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@curiously@mastodon.au 2026-11-11 01:45
@stux@mstdn.social very clear evidence to be very wary of their Newspeak & Doublethink Dept, no I didn't mean their marketing team, that's just what they call it publically these days.
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@blechterror@mastodon.de 2026-11-11 07:27
@stux@mstdn.social And it was a lie right from the start. They just kept making it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
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@stevefenton@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 08:10
@stux@mstdn.social Hey everyone, the new reception plasma screen has been installed!
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@ruurd@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 12:13
@stux@mstdn.social @wiert@mastodon.social das war einmal…