When you look at Google’s philosophy, you will see that “Don’t be evil” is still there. However, Google’s insisting on pushing Google+ results in front of everything else provoked a lot of uproar.

In a weird turn of events, engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace joined forces and created a browser plug-in called – ironically – “Don’t be evil.” This browser plug-in allows you to perform searches in the old way, without Google pushing Google+ results before you see anything else.

It’s definite that Google got lost along the way and forgot its own philosophy. What Google forgot are some very sound principles and it is good to be acquainted with them.

“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.”

- Cato the Elder