Investor money vs. public interest: did Google fail to build a non-evil platform?
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9 min readSep 30, 2019
Don’t be evil.
That was Google’s official motto, until recently.
Google engineers Paul Buchheit and Amit Patel coined the phrase during a 2002 company meeting. Buchheit, who also happens to be the creator of Gmail, describes the brainstorm session to author Jessica Livingston in her book…
