Nope, they are a perfect company who can do no wrong on HN. Just try to point out something they screw up, an army will show up to obliterate you immediately. I guess this is the new phase of marketing, just make sure you dominate discussions everywhere, all the time.
Are you kidding? Google can barely throw away a cardboard box without a flood of HN comments exclaiming "embrace, extend, extinguish!" and calling them "the new Microsoft."
It seems that both sides are well-represented here. That's true on a number of issues, and is what makes HN pretty unique among discussion sites.