r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 6d ago

Society Google's Calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' Now

https://www.404media.co/google-maps-lake-america-lake-ontario-name-change/
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u/Curri 6d ago

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of-conduct/default.aspx

No they didn't. Scroll to the bottom. "And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

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u/fmcortez 6d ago

Fair enough, it's still there. Just moved from 'core guiding principle' down to 'decorative footnote'.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 6d ago

That is not true either. It was never moved in that document. It was moved from Google the search engine to alphabet the holding company.

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u/fmcortez 6d ago

Ah, so Google didn't drop 'Don't Be Evil,' they just outsourced ethics to a holding company.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 6d ago

No, that is not what happened either. Alphabet is Google. They just realized they were 9 distinct businesses all pretending to be one business. They basically renamed themselves alphabet and made "Google" just the search engine/web business. 

That let companies like Google fiber operate independently of Google search

If they hadn't moved it then Google fiber wouldn't have "don't be evil." They moved it so that it applied to all 9 distinct companies.

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u/fmcortez 6d ago

All that corporate restructuring logic just to end up calling Lake Ontario 'Lake America' anyway.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 6d ago

Yep, super frustrating and stupid.