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Hmm. I keep getting warnings about responding to quickly. Perhaps my account is under attack. Setting that aside, google has done good things. Today, not so mu

by jfoutz 8y ago

Hmm. I keep getting warnings about responding to quickly. Perhaps my account is under attack. Setting that aside, google has done good things. Today, not so much. It’s never too late to turn the ship around. Google can still be awesome. Our opinions aren’t that different. I don’t think big g can turn it around, but I’m rooting for them.

mirimir 8y ago
> Hmm. I keep getting warnings about responding to quickly. Perhaps my account is under attack. I've been getting those too, lately. I thought maybe that my touchpad finger is developing tremor ;)
luckylion 8y ago
> I don’t think big g can turn it around, but I’m rooting for them. I believe they can, but I don't know if they care to - they're highly profitable after all. What I really dislike about search is that, by treating links as currency, they have broken links. Lots of people won't put plain old links on their site because they fear it would hurt their rankings. Their overreliance on links as the sole quality indicator has, at least in my country, lead to the large media companies just renting out folders or subdomains - and whatever low quality content is published there ranks at the top. They still build good stuff, and I'm sure their engineers could "solve" search again, but it appears that their management doesn't want to.
chachachoney 8y ago
I'm struggling to think of a single historical example of corporate entity the size of google that has "turned it around" rather than abusing the good faith of a customer base for the duration of their race to the bottom. Google can't still be awesome, as they're no longer seeking to disrupt an existing market and burning through venture capital while doing everything and anything (including providing superior search results, and making ethical business practices part of their brand) to attract users. Rooting for a profit motivated transnational entity in the manner one would for a sports team exposes the insidious nature of brand narratives and the exploitable irrationality of our own interactions with them.
- cududa 7y ago
  Microsoft is a good example

by jfoutz 8y ago

mirimir 8y ago

> Hmm. I keep getting warnings about responding to quickly. Perhaps my account is under attack. I've been getting those too, lately. I thought maybe that my touchpad finger is developing tremor ;)

luckylion 8y ago

> I don’t think big g can turn it around, but I’m rooting for them. I believe they can, but I don't know if they care to - they're highly profitable after all. What I really dislike about search is that, by treating links as currency, they have broken links. Lots of people won't put plain old links on their site because they fear it would hurt their rankings. Their overreliance on links as the sole quality indicator has, at least in my country, lead to the large media companies just renting out folders or subdomains - and whatever low quality content is published there ranks at the top. They still build good stuff, and I'm sure their engineers could "solve" search again, but it appears that their management doesn't want to.

chachachoney 8y ago

I'm struggling to think of a single historical example of corporate entity the size of google that has "turned it around" rather than abusing the good faith of a customer base for the duration of their race to the bottom. Google can't still be awesome, as they're no longer seeking to disrupt an existing market and burning through venture capital while doing everything and anything (including providing superior search results, and making ethical business practices part of their brand) to attract users. Rooting for a profit motivated transnational entity in the manner one would for a sports team exposes the insidious nature of brand narratives and the exploitable irrationality of our own interactions with them.

cududa 7y ago
Microsoft is a good example