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Why? You offered a non-obvious assessment without any evidence or argumentation. Personally I think you are completely wrong. Google is in the business of targ
by nanairo 16y ago
Why? You offered a non-obvious assessment without any evidence or argumentation.
Personally I think you are completely wrong. Google is in the business of targeted ads. For that they need infos about the user. Everything else is just a trap to get you to tell them a bit about yourself. Helping you in your searches, is as important as knowing what and who you email.
Facebook, who is also entering the same market, is giving them food for thought exactly because of that. Facebook offers almost no search, but they get your infos from other means. From Google's perspective the end result is similar.
- ddelony 16y agoI'm not knocking Google in any way. It's just that, as the article says, Google seems to be developing their new products because thee engineers think they're cool, regardless of whether they're actually commercial. In this way, Google is the Bell Labs of the 21st century.
- drawkbox 16y agoLots of good stuff came out of Bell Labs, modern software being one of them, C++ another. Lots of things you are looking at right now while at your computer were influenced by Bell Labs.
- ddelony 16y agoI have enormous respect for Bell Labs, at least until they decided to kill non telecommunications projects.