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Google getting bad publicity more often

by Darren

For a time period Google was a media darling, where they could seemingly do no wrong. Lately I’m noticing a change to that fact. Despite their big recent quarter in earnings, many are questioning their methods and objectives. One big problem is click-fraud, and this week you can expect an end to the $95 million case of fraud against them.

Google has maintained that they take adequate measures to combat click-fraud, but critics aren’t quite as sure. People are even unhappy about the Google Party Jet.

So what’s a company of Google’s ilk to do? Probably release even more products that ever. They’ve adopted a launch-a-product a minute mentality which is seeing them flap their jaws and follow it up with a big yawn.

Add to this the fact that the broken Google search engine never gets fixed, and I’m starting to wonder why I have a Google section at all.

I guess it’s because people still like talking about them and they still have the search market on raps. How long this trend will last I can’t say, but the negative sentiment is getting worse.