Google gives £550k to Bletchley Park

Google has donated over half a million pounds for restorations at Bletchley Park, the site which commemorates the birth of modern computing and the code-breakers who helped bring the Second World War to an end. ~ The Register

OK, OK ... I take back all those things I said about the Google Borg.

(Well, some of them anyway ... )

 

Google donates $11.5 million to fight modern slavery

 

I wonder if Google will donate a few quid towards me if I say enough nice things about them?

 

Aaaaaaah! We're getting to the nub of the sustained rants They'll first do a bit of data-mining to see if your rants have had any effect. BTW, are you CMonkeyBloke elsewhere?

 

Rants? I prefer diatribes.

You'll never take me alive coppers!

 

Not exactly a-typical for Google.

 

They aren't fooling anyone.

 

http://www.ijm.org/content/googleorg-ijm-and-ngo-coalitions-launch-historic-anti-slavery-initiatives

Read more here as well:
http://www.google.com/landing/givesback/2011/

 

Yeah, it'll make the world love them.

 

I'm sure the slaves will refuse the help once they realize it's a PR play.

 

Does that include all the underpaid 3rd world workers making Chromebooks?

 

That's like blaming Microsoft for Dell using underpaid workings. Google provides the OS, they don't handle the hardware at all.

EDIT: Incidentally I'd love a source on that though. Not that I doubt it, I'm just curious.

 

Not really, I thought that MS & Dell were separate companies.

I'm curious too.