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Charlie Taylor: When did innovation die at Google?

Once a genuinely groundbreaking and exciting business, the tech behemoth seems to have run out of ideas

Google laid off 12,000 people last year

When did Google stop being good? I don’t mean in terms of morality. After all, the company made it abundantly clear it no longer cared about doing the right thing when it famously dropped its ‘don’t be evil’ motto nearly a decade ago.

Much of what it has done in the years since have only seemed to prove this to be the case, with criticism over, among other things, tax avoidance, market abuse, and the ...