I found the old version more amusing:<p>"Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat. ... Google's entire staff is dedicated to creating the perfect search engine and work tirelessly toward that goal."<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040603020634/http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20040603020634/http://www.google....</a><p>Oops!
<i>Since the beginning, we've focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we're designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line.</i><p>Google's support for their free products is terrible. While they may take great care to keep the user in mind while <i>designing</i> products, and take care to optimize for the variables they track, their claim above rings hollow in my experience.
> It's best to do one thing really, really well.<p>Really? True, Google does search really well, and it makes sense that this would have been their philosophy at some point in the past. But now it seems like they would be more for something like "Do one thing really well, and once people appreciate it, do a thousand other little things."
"Having received a number of queries about our evil scale, we present an explanation here": <a href="http://www.lot49.com/evil_scale.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lot49.com/evil_scale.html</a>
''Since the beginning, we've focused on providing the best user experience possible. Whether we're designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line.''<p>this may be true for search but not true for instance in the case of google news <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528216" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528216</a> - google news was changed to serve not the user but internal google goals - it was a change to display new technology - because they can they changed it