The question is <i>Who does google optimize for?</i><p>As a publicly traded company, it optimizes for GOOG. I have nothing against google, but I do think there is not enough skepticism our fear about them eating the whole stack.<p>* Receive gmail link from friend.
* Use Chrome Browser as gateway to internet.
* Use DNS to resolve that URL.
* Site built on Angular and has new SPDY tags.
* Libraries and Fonts served from CDN.<p>see something unclear at the url.<p>* use google search to find that link
* google analytics beacons on both websites report your traffic.<p>I am concerned about the temptation for google to get up to something naughty. Luckily, as we now, it is an undisputed fact that our data is 100% safe with google and there are no organizations trying to actively attack their network or intercede. We also know, that compromising an individual (either an employee or a customer of google) is 100% impossible, never has happened, and never conceivably could happen. So it isn&#x27;t a big deal.<p>So, is the issue you can&#x27;t run a mailserver? Maybe. Maybe not.<p>You can&#x27;t crawl many valuable sites now, unless you are google bot or a big vendor.<p>2 (3 if we count microsoft) companies can ban you from competing on mobile.<p>etc.<p>The slight losses in some areas to optimize for what google wants are small. In aggregate, they are wildly irresponsible for us to accept and we shoudlnt.