Dan Mitchell points out in this article in the New York Times (registration required) that Google has become the ogre of the Internet simply by being Google. In other words, the fact that the company is in a position to grab the top position on the Internet is enough for many people to assume that Google is evil. This without any countervailing opinion for Google, which seems to prefer not to speculate about world domination and actually prefers to talk about being a good corporate citizen. Could it be that business success is, in itself, a ticket to vilification? I remember when Microsoft was the scrappy, user-focused upstart. Google just made the transition to bad boy that much faster. Can a successful company every really win?