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pmontratoday at 2:32 PM1 replyview on HN

At the beginning of Google it meant "we will not be like Microsoft" and it was good marketing.


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eMPee584today at 3:40 PM

This is the relevant historical context to understand how this ever got into big G's mission statement, it was to distance themselves from the then well-known anti-competitive mal-practices of the Redmond giant.. which seemingly they've learned a lot from. Don't no-one worry too much, they only have less than half of the world population's messaging metadata, schedules, realtime location and private pictures.