Google shreds 2005 promise of 'no banner ads', Do Be Evil next?

Original discussion, still on the front page and with nearly 200 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6605312

Another submission, but with no real discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604925

However, that original now has so many comments any additional thoughts will get lost in the noise. I suspect that's why there's another one shooting up the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6606662

People see that one and upvote it to make sure their comments get seen.

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I wish there were a more sensible way to organize discussions like this, so that well-thought out, comprehensive and useful contributions were easier to find. Instead, the discussions become so sprawling that anything after the first few comments and replies are lost, so when something is popular we get split discussions with significant replication and duplication.

Feels like such a waste of time and effort - the engineer/hacker/problem-solver in me is offended, even though others think there's really nothing wrong with it.

Maybe it's just me.

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