So how are "page ranking, search results, and cached data" inherently evil? These are some of the basic services that make the web as we know it work. Also, energy consumption? My understanding is that they were doing quite a lot to meet their needs with renewable sources[1][2]. I hardly think that qualifies as evil.<p>Sure, there are times and issues we can point to where Google has failed their motto. You could make an argument that their mission to "organize the world's information" <i>is</i> evil when it is carried to it's logical extreme, or at least empowers evil. But this comic is not making those points. It's just grabbing a bunch of old headlines, some of which aren't even relevant.<p>Though I confess I never really "got" Doonesbury. It's rarely accurate enough to pass as a political cartoon and rarely funny enough for the funny pages.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.google.com/green/energy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/green/energy/</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/20/us-google-windpower-idUSTRE66J3BL20100720" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/20/us-google-windpowe...</a>
Google is 15 years old with almost 50,000 current employees. Of course it has done evil things. Now, don't know of a coherent widely agreed-upon definition of evil, but once you get to that scale, there is enough human behavior going on that some of it will be evil for pretty much any definition.<p>The lack of a widely agreed-upon definition of evil is a problem for Google though. That word gets thrown around enough that "don't be evil", really only means "Don't use 'we're a for-profit corporation' as an excuse to do something egregious."
Google is also evil with their AdSense banning[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672910" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672910</a>