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I find it more believable that Google attracts engineers who want to save the environment than Google is secretly manipulating the routes of the masses for prof
by eximius 6y ago
I find it more believable that Google attracts engineers who want to save the environment than Google is secretly manipulating the routes of the masses for profit.
- ehsankia 6y ago> than Google is secretly manipulating the routes of the masses for profit That's the first I hear of this conspiracy, are there really people that believe this? FUD has honestly gotten out of control into very strange territory.
- Igelau 6y agoWell... things did get kind of fishy with Waze after Google bought it. Waze made money by showing you ads for things along your route when you weren't moving. How do you maximize the dollar signs in that equation? Maybe they stopped doing that in favor of a model that has less "conflict of use cases", but I wouldn't know. What I want to know is how much increasing volume and congestion on the greenest route reduces its greenness.
- eximius 6y agoTake a peek at some of the other comments on this thread hinting or outright suggesting it.
- uoaei 6y agoBoth are possible. Google is a very big place.