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I wonder if the end goal here is for Google to start selling "Promoted Jobs" advertisements. I'm also a little concerned if this gets popular that competitors

by sna1l 9y ago

I wonder if the end goal here is for Google to start selling "Promoted Jobs" advertisements. I'm also a little concerned if this gets popular that competitors jobs will happen to be further down the list than they should be, but that's probably just my paranoia.

mundo 9y ago
I don't think you're being paranoid enough; the end goal here is for Google to be the biggest and best source of every kind of information anyone would ever want, ever.
- halflings 9y ago
  Paranoid? That's the official company-wide mission/slogan: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ Nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Nothing is wrong with a monopoly as long as it’s controlled democratically by all who use it. In the next years, either we’ll have to break Google up, ban them from the European markets, or find a way for all citizen to have control over Google. And if we end up with the German government straight up buying Google. But a single person having control over a monopoly that becomes a necessity in your life is becoming close to autocracy. It’s not that problematic yet, but if Google actually takes over the employment market, self-driving cars, and more (same with Amazon, if they actually manage to take over all Retail), then there’s a massive issue. Autocratic Corporations should never be allowed to hold any monopoly – Cooperatives would be a better alternative for that.
    - throwanem 9y ago
      > a monopoly as long as it’s controlled democratically by all who use it Another word for this arrangement is "government".
      - robotresearcher 9y ago
        That's a subset of possible governments.
        throwanem 9y ago
        Sure. But in this context I was more interested in pointing out that that's a kind of government, than in parsing differences between various such kinds.
  - n42 9y ago
    The mission is admirable. The end result is unknown. One entity controlling that much information is generally seen as a dangerous thing.
  - drdeadringer 9y ago
    This exchange reminds me of a line from Robin Williams' "Club Paradise": "Yesterday, I was paranoid. I thought people were after me. Today, I know they're after me. There they are." [Points and nods across the street] [The island's mayor waves half-heartedly] [Robin Williams waves back]
seoseokho 9y ago
I'm sure they will do promoted jobs. But I wonder if this is more of a defensive move against job related ads that are stagnant - they're trying to do something similar to what they did with the hotel booking: to encourage higher all around bidding from the ecosystem on ads (or find new revenue stream) by putting competition on the intermediaries (ota) that were outbidding the orignators (hotels) for keywords about the originators.

by sna1l 9y ago

mundo 9y ago

I don't think you're being paranoid enough; the end goal here is for Google to be the biggest and best source of every kind of information anyone would ever want, ever.

halflings 9y ago
Paranoid? That's the official company-wide mission/slogan: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ Nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned.
- kuschku 9y ago
  Nothing is wrong with a monopoly as long as it’s controlled democratically by all who use it. In the next years, either we’ll have to break Google up, ban them from the European markets, or find a way for all citizen to have control over Google. And if we end up with the German government straight up buying Google. But a single person having control over a monopoly that becomes a necessity in your life is becoming close to autocracy. It’s not that problematic yet, but if Google actually takes over the employment market, self-driving cars, and more (same with Amazon, if they actually manage to take over all Retail), then there’s a massive issue. Autocratic Corporations should never be allowed to hold any monopoly – Cooperatives would be a better alternative for that.
  - throwanem 9y ago
    > a monopoly as long as it’s controlled democratically by all who use it Another word for this arrangement is "government".
    - robotresearcher 9y ago
      That's a subset of possible governments.
      - throwanem 9y ago
        Sure. But in this context I was more interested in pointing out that that's a kind of government, than in parsing differences between various such kinds.
- n42 9y ago
  The mission is admirable. The end result is unknown. One entity controlling that much information is generally seen as a dangerous thing.
- drdeadringer 9y ago
  This exchange reminds me of a line from Robin Williams' "Club Paradise": "Yesterday, I was paranoid. I thought people were after me. Today, I know they're after me. There they are." [Points and nods across the street] [The island's mayor waves half-heartedly] [Robin Williams waves back]

seoseokho 9y ago

I'm sure they will do promoted jobs. But I wonder if this is more of a defensive move against job related ads that are stagnant - they're trying to do something similar to what they did with the hotel booking: to encourage higher all around bidding from the ecosystem on ads (or find new revenue stream) by putting competition on the intermediaries (ota) that were outbidding the orignators (hotels) for keywords about the originators.