Google is like the elephant that never forgets… and it knows all of your personal information. Do you trust it not to be “evil?” Or is Google just a nice name for “Big Brother?” Let’s not forget how they bowed to Chinese government demands that Chinese users be prevented from seeing certain search results, like information about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Sony is a member of former Worst Company in America winner, the RIAA. When its not fake blogging, it can be found installing a rootkit on your computer and finding lots of ways to void your warranty.
This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2008 series. Keep track of all the goings on at consumerist.com/tag/worst-company-in-america/
STILL OPEN FOR VOTING: Ticketmaster vs Wachovia, Facebook vs The American Arbitration Association, Comcast vs Menu Foods
(Photo:Jeff Sanquist)
More From Consumerist
-
Here Are Your Contestants For The 2013 Worst Company In America Tournament!
-
Worst Company In America Round 1: Apple Vs. Microsoft
-
Worst Company In America Round 2: EA Vs. Facebook
-
Worst Company In America Round 1: Google Vs. Facebook
-
Bank Of America, Comcast Among Familiar Names In List Of Least Reputable Companies
Everyone in my office pool chose Sony to advance. And we work for Sony.
Neither of these companies are evil.
What is this? a 16 seed going up against a 10 seed? I get why both should be in discussion, but we’ve had a series of polls that were evil company vs. evil company, and now we’ve got sad sack Sony vs. decidedly not evil Google? Is that really fair? I mean, I just missed a chance to vote for a company that poisoned dogs because they actually weren’t the most evil of the two that day. Frankly, I’d vote for everyone I didn’t vote for to date over either of these two.
And you’re seriously reminding of us of how you helped some loser scammer get a free PS3 in making the case against Sony? I still haven’t gotten my free PS3. Is that why Sony is evil? Because some customers end up with free stuff they don’t deserve thanks to credit card companies?
Sony FTW here.
@BeFrugalNotCheap:
You say that like there is a history of Google doing stuff like that. Which there isn’t btw.
Google has no business being here. It should be in the Best Company in America poll.
Google censors Encyclopedia Dramatica and balances “scientology” results in Scientology’s favor, in addition to killing google bombs. Boo.
I mean, I just missed a chance to vote for a company that poisoned dogs…
@BStu: All the previous polls are supposed to still be open for voting. Is it not working?
@Rectilinear Propagation: I missed voting for them because the other option was more evil. Yet here we have two not really terribly evil options pitted against each other.
I have no clue why Google is on the list. I do have a PS2 that is now a paperweight.
This is kind of a lopsided battle… especially since Consumerist is the sister site of Fanboy nation (Aka: Kotaku )
This is why Google is on the list, and why they should make it into the finals.
[www.motherjones.com]
@urban_ninjya: “First few rounds will be pretty much one-sided. It’s like the playoffs, they put the lower ranking teams against the top ranking teams for quicker eliminations, and it’s more likely for the top ranking team to make it to the end.”
The “first round” will be your only chance to make sure you are choosing correctly.
ooh, tough choice! Google make the tools that make my job and hobby easier (web developer and photography).
Sony make my PSP and camera…
Damn, Sony it is for the RIAA link.
Sony, no contest.
Google’s products are free, novel, and useful. Any evil has so far been eclipsed by innumerable benefits. Just take the new street-view feature in Google Maps. It just popped in one day to make my life easier. (yay! bubbles.)
Sony makes great electronic products, usually, but makes life much more annoying overall with their stupid proprietary formats such as memory stick/magic-gate debacle and visually pollutes the environment with movies such as Snakes on a Plane and adding shiny LCD coatings to computer screens.