Following Google’s corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. In Aprilthe motto was removed from the code of conduct’s preface and retained in its last sentence. The motto was first suggested either by Google employee Paul Buchheit at a meeting about corporate values that took place in early [7] or in [8] or, according to another account, by Google engineer Amit Patel in While the official corporate philosophy of Google [10] does not contain the words «Don’t be evil», they were included in the prospectus on Form S-1 of Google’s IPO a letter from Google’s founders, later called the «‘Don’t Be Evil’ manifesto» : «Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. But «Don’t be evil» is much more than that The Google Code ...