> if Goog wasn't a majority "blue" company would he aggressively go after them
Certainly can't help them. However, I think that's a moot point if everyone can agree they are the most troublesome company in the "land of large companies". It seems like every few months I see outrage on HN over "Google increased pricing for $X service, but there aren't really any other options" situations.
Cable companies have taken billion in federal subsidies, lied about universal deployment and speeds, and unless there is local competition have taken customers to the cleaners, forced the purchase of bundled channel packages, charged rentals for modems they were not renting (I should know - I called in every month to have charge removed) etc.
I can think of a long list of other large / monopoly type companies that regular abuse consumers at far higher levels than google does.
Consumer spend on google is actually pretty small.
You spend a lot of time in an echo chamber that specifically like to talk about niche topics and specifically likes to complain about Google. Do you remember the “Google Cloud is getting shut down” hysteria? HN is a bubble.
Certainly can't help them. However, I think that's a moot point if everyone can agree they are the most troublesome company in the "land of large companies". It seems like every few months I see outrage on HN over "Google increased pricing for $X service, but there aren't really any other options" situations.