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Microsoft's mission is to "empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more."

Maybe not having tons of distractions in the form of advertisements on the search homepage allows people to achieve more.

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Since they’ve added it, my searches in the mobile app fail about 50 percent of the time because the connection isn’t good enough. I don’t know what they’ve changed but it has some weird connectivity requirements. I only use it for the rewards and now Google is going to match it(at least I got a postcard with an online offer)

That might be Microsoft's mission _statement_, but their mission is to make the most profit at all costs

so is every for-profit business...

I believe there's a sweet spot before companies grow too much where there can still be some ethics behind some business decisions, after that ethics become a byproduct influenced by marketing strategies and public sentiment weighted against market competition and many other factors, basically it transforms into an entity that tries to make as much profit as possible at all costs.

Yeah, no. That is at best a joke about you taking statements overly literally.

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