isn't that just your guess though? Zealous over-optimization only gets you so far: illegally extending a monopoly requires active malice and disdain. Really removing users' choice. Forcing them to use your products.
For example one of the things I would do as an evil product manager at Google is introduce active detection of Firefox - even if the user agent string has been set to Chrome to get me to serve unbroken pages. I would have engineers actively fingerprint Firefox, and if I figure out the user is using Firefox, serve them broken pages. (Even if it works perfectly well in Firefox if they pass my detection, and even if they identify as Chrome.)
Would this attitude be a good fit for a product manager for Google? I'm really evil.
>Will it start removing those results, effectively censoring another huge chunk of the Internet?
speaking as an evil overlord, the most illegal extension of Google's search monopoly would be to redirect those results through Google Drive in a way that forces users to go through Google Drive to see and access the full link or download any of its contents.
By the way, Google, would you like me to apply as a product manager (I'm very evil), or are you still doing the don't be evil thing? Any Google product managers reading this, specifically, would you welcome me as your evil colleague, so we can do evil and wrong things together, illegally extending Google's monopoly and closing off the web and making it worse for everyone? Team fit is very important for me, I don't know if it's the right environment for me. Like I said my only requirement is a very evil workplace, with lots of evil colleagues who have the worst intentions and actively sneer at users. I'm like that - would I fit in?
For example one of the things I would do as an evil product manager at Google is introduce active detection of Firefox - even if the user agent string has been set to Chrome to get me to serve unbroken pages. I would have engineers actively fingerprint Firefox, and if I figure out the user is using Firefox, serve them broken pages. (Even if it works perfectly well in Firefox if they pass my detection, and even if they identify as Chrome.)
Would this attitude be a good fit for a product manager for Google? I'm really evil.