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Because people won't trust google soon (google != alphabet). When adblockers are fully implemented and used by the entire population, google will look like soci

Because people won't trust google soon (google != alphabet). When adblockers are fully implemented and used by the entire population, google will look like societ russia after the collapse of the CCCP. It is going to start moving into any business where information is valuable (every business) and it will be super scary as they have the entire worlds data and they have been using it to train a very complex and highly sophisticated AI for nearly 2 decades with billions of records of training data a second in every category you can imagine. So people will want to protect their data & privacy, especially companies. People will want to have a better search experience, which means that things that are on the internet that they want to see will be there. Google is probably the most monitored for takedown requests/deindexing and they control most of the video portals and certainly the window you view the interent through so they are a target to legitimate and illegitimate takedown requests. edit: they also have built the components and outsourced them. Hadoop/Map Reduce, most of Apache's products, elasticsearch, and another google offering tensorflow can certainly be made into a search engine. Obviously not google scale, but certainly an individual.

liber8 10y ago
Ordinary people, particularly young people, clearly care far, far, far, far, far less about privacy than you think. The average middle-class ten year old literally has more pictures of herself than the number of days she's been alive, and an enormous number of those pictures are already online. Moreover, she's constantly putting more and more of her life online. If anything, I think people want to have more of the interesting parts of their lives be more public (in other words, they want to be "famous", whether just among their friends or on a bigger stage). They do want many things to be "private" in the sense that they don't want certain people to see certain things online. But I think we're deluding ourselves if we think they care at all about the fact that google is scanning their emails or search history, or that twitter is mining their tweets, or that snapchat is using their location data.
nostrademons 10y ago
There's also a big irony about talking about privacy on Hacker News, where our political views are preserved for eternity on the Internet for anyone to read. ;-)

liber8 10y ago

Ordinary people, particularly young people, clearly care far, far, far, far, far less about privacy than you think. The average middle-class ten year old literally has more pictures of herself than the number of days she's been alive, and an enormous number of those pictures are already online. Moreover, she's constantly putting more and more of her life online. If anything, I think people want to have more of the interesting parts of their lives be more public (in other words, they want to be "famous", whether just among their friends or on a bigger stage). They do want many things to be "private" in the sense that they don't want certain people to see certain things online. But I think we're deluding ourselves if we think they care at all about the fact that google is scanning their emails or search history, or that twitter is mining their tweets, or that snapchat is using their location data.

nostrademons 10y ago

There's also a big irony about talking about privacy on Hacker News, where our political views are preserved for eternity on the Internet for anyone to read. ;-)