Ask HN: Why there is so many Google lovers on Hacker News?

5 points by gfaremil 14 years ago | 2 comments

I found it interesting that Hacker News is full of Google lovers: if you say anything against Google you will be downvoted.

I'm not saying that is bad or anything but just it is interesting. Could it be that a lot Google employees lurk on Hacker News? Could it because young engineers are generally impressed by Google technology and because of that anything else Google does must be good?

jeffool 14 years ago |

To be fair, a lot of complaints about any company/site/etc aren't just complaints, but instead preferences of something else. So sometimes it's not really a legit complaint, just fanboyism of something else, instead.

That said, I also think that the Google preference (where ever it's found) comes from a large consensus that Google has done relatively well on the "do no evil" philosophy. This isn't to say they can do no wrong, surely they can, but evil? Fans seem to think they do far less that many competitors seem to, anyway.

And personally, I've recently realized that I do actually have such a rather positive opinion of Google. After the Motorola announcement I did a little reflection and realized had it been most other companies I would've been a little more weary of the acquisition. With Google I thought "Huh. That could be neat. Maybe they could buy T-Mobile too."

So, I'm curious if you have a particular example? Maybe I help you see why others didn't take kindly to it? (Maybe, anyway.)

franze 14 years ago |

when google screws up (which they do, sometimes, sometimes they don't) there is a fair share of criticism, too i.e.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592399

but as a matter of fact, i'm quite glad that HN does not share the overall "Google Datenkrake" hysteria.