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Someone's gotta do something about Google. While they can't be responsible for someone putting all their eggs in the same basket, their terrible customer suppor
by iampims 9y ago
Someone's gotta do something about Google.
While they can't be responsible for someone putting all their eggs in the same basket, their terrible customer support policies can really ruin someone's work beyond repair.
- Clubber 9y agoThe biggest problem with Google isn't that they can delete YouTube videos or your Google+ account, it's that they can virtually erase you from the web through their search domination.
- soared 9y agoI mean technically yes, but that is pretty much fear mongering. That is like fearing the government because they could delete your social security number. Neither would ever do it, despite it being possible. The ramifications would be absurd.
- Clubber 9y agoThere was an article on here where the author said Google pushed a critical article they wrote down to the bottom of the charts. Found it. https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437 https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas... the most disturbing part of the experience was what came next: Somehow, very quickly, search results stopped showing the original story at all. As I recall it—and although it has been six years, this episode was seared into my memory—a cached version remained shortly after the post was unpublished, but it was soon scrubbed from Google search results.
- stale2002 9y agoIf the government did that I could sue them and win. If Google started censoring certain political ideas or certain people, there is zero recourse. There are zero ramifications, unless I am already someone important and powerful. A whole lot of our lives is controlled by unaccountable, powerful entities that could legally ruin your life because it is their platform. But apparently nobody cares about that because "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences".
- severine 9y agoSerious question: what are some examples of great content virtually erased from the web by search engines?
- Clubber 9y agoWhy don't you Google them? Edit: So someone missed the joke. If the Google removed an article, you couldn't Google it. Anyway, I finally found something after searching a bit. https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437 https://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas... the most disturbing part of the experience was what came next: Somehow, very quickly, search results stopped showing the original story at all. As I recall it—and although it has been six years, this episode was seared into my memory—a cached version remained shortly after the post was unpublished, but it was soon scrubbed from Google search results.
- userbinator 9y agoGreat and obscure content --- that you'd most want a search engine to find, tends to be at most risk. For one example, I've noticed that finding information on obscure electronics part numbers has gotten much harder, and the search results are getting "diluted" with useless "fillter" results that don't even contain all the words you're searching for. Example queries I've had poor luck with recently: TVN_DELETEITEM recursive (count how many first-page results contain TVN_DELETEITEM) ITU T.800 (count how many are about T.800 and not E.800 or P.800 or X.800 or...)
- efreak 9y agoI've been annoyed at this for a while too, but I've noticed that if you put your search terms in quotes, that almost always fixes it. I have yet to see any existing search results disappear without the website they link to also disappearing. If only Google indexed the web archive...
- sundvor 9y agoAre you using the Verbatim search mode under Search tools, which replaces "All Results"? Makes a huge difference in getting rid of those suggestions etc.
- tedunangst 9y agoThat someone can be you! www.videohostingwithaheart.com is available...