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From the article- "In other words, your daily business is Google’s business." From Google- "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it
by throwaway98237 10y ago
From the article-
"In other words, your daily business is Google’s business."
From Google-
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
One thing that drives me mad about Google is how they say "the world's information", then ignore 99.9% of the worlds information, and then expect their consumers to give them a pass and not call them to account for how they privatize user information.
Looking at the information that Google organizes and makes accessible and useful I don't see things like "species extinction", "oceanic water temperature history", or say "dolphin linguistic data", equally represented when compared to "my browsing history", "my location history", "my search history", "an archive of my voice searches", "when I leave or return home via Nest", "who I associate with via Google's communication suite". Google is organizing exactly that data which Google can monetize, which is not the world's data. Not a lot of people want to buy data on deforestation so it's much more difficult to get Google to put resources into that. How many people chew pieces of gum until 100% of the flavor is gone? I'll never know, and Google isn't going to help me, because it isn't a profitable data set.
Simply stated, Google needs to stop acting benevolent and start fessing up to attempting to be omniscient in order to be all knowing about its users, not "the world's data".
- tantalor 10y agohttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=deforestation http://lmgtfy.com/?q=deforestation
- throwaway98237 10y agoFirst off let me put this out there, people that send me "lmgtfy" links annoy the f#ck-sh#t out of me. I'm proficient at utilizing search engines, thanks pal. More directly to the point, I was (clearly) comparing the relative resources Google invests in some data sets vs others. Are you arguing that Google invests comparable resources in this type of data compared to the resources it invests in understanding Google's users' data sets?
- euyyn 10y agoGoogle Scholar, Google Books, and Google Earth data for researchers existed before the Google Assistant was even an idea. Not sure what your point is, either: do you want to get a notification in the morning saying "try to leave early today, as an accident has caused increased traffic," along with another one saying "remember to save to buy an electric car"?
- throwaway98237 10y agoNot talking directly to the awesomeness of each of their individual products, which I would be the first to admit, they have many. And not speaking directly to their Assistant product. Before Google Assistant there indeed were those other products, which, I honestly don't get why you chose these ones, they aren't exactly great counter arguments. My central point was, Google puts it's resources best where there is the best return. I did not say, Google never created anything which makes non monetized information more freely available. With this being Google's central philosophy and guiding corporate light, it's a hard sell to continue to paint it as a benefactor to all of humanity. Gmail was initially a product started by one guy at Google, and was not a project born out of Google corporate philosophy or business strategy. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail Google Books has been mired in lawsuits brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers with the issues including copyright, privacy, censorship issues. --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search_Settlement_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search_Settlement_... Re: Google Earth... This one is fully being leveraged for monetization, especially with mobile's commercial possibilities finally being realized. From Wikipedia: "Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded company acquired by Google in 2004 (see In-Q-Tel)." some more reading on one take on Google books: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happene... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-is-not-a-lib_b_317518.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/google-books-... https://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/google-books-and-the-librarian-backlash/ https://gigaom.com/2013/01/14/google-books-and-the-librarian... http://nysbar.com/blogs/EASL/2011/09/the_google_books_project_now_t.html http://nysbar.com/blogs/EASL/2011/09/the_google_books_projec... https://www.wired.com/2009/05/libraries-warn-of-censorship-privacy-cost-in-googles-digital-library/ https://www.wired.com/2009/05/libraries-warn-of-censorship-p... https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/award_articles/6.4baksik.pdf https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_...