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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Google's new motto perhaps.

Good intentions?

Strip away the blue sky projects and the stuff they do for optics/PR, and you’re left with a machine that is designed to collect deeply personal insights about every economic participant on Earth and use that intelligence to make money.

Google’s road to hell was paved with deceit.

Not sure where the deceit was. This was always what they were doing.

But before all they had was a search engine instead of 500 services paired with analytics.

I think the initial intention of creating a "good" search engine was there and a great social benefit, but after that it kinda went to hell.

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