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Mainstream media story about web company? Check. Nothing new? Check. Negative? Check. Of course Yelp participated...but Yelp angle aside, CBS is just following
by kodablah 8y ago
Mainstream media story about web company? Check. Nothing new? Check. Negative? Check. Of course Yelp participated...but Yelp angle aside, CBS is just following the news cycle patterns of their brethren. I'm mentioning this a lot these days, but feels like watching cattle being herded (albeit willingly).
- KozmoNau7 8y agoThere is a prevailing "tech can do no wrong" attitude in the tech community, and it absolutely needs to be challenged hard.
- kodablah 8y ago> There is a prevailing "tech can do no wrong" attitude in the tech community Is there? I see the opposite in communities including the one we're on. The anti-big-web-company torches seem brightest within compared to the more accepting yet non-ignorant outside.
- majewsky 8y agoI think it's not quite "tech can do no wrong", but "all problems can be solved with tech" is definitely prevalent. I guess it's because we're all tech guys here and "if you only have a hammer...".
- KozmoNau7 8y agoYeah, that's a better way of putting it. Way too many people in tech are completely blinded to its limitations and inherent problems.
- jacksmith21006 8y agoBut you need to use valid examples which the Yelp one is not. Yelp is terrible so not high on the search results like it should be. But then do a product search and Amazon a top result returned even though Amazon banned any company on their market place from selling a bunch of Google products. It is just Yelp sour grapes. If going to accuse Google think you might use a valid example.
- cm2187 8y agoIt gives banks a break.
- almostApatriot1 8y agoI don't think the vast majority of 60 minutes viewers would have been aware about any of the details mentioned in this piece. Not everybody follows Google anti-trust chatter.