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Google prioritizing Google Offers emails over other daily deal suppliers
- patio11 15y agoI think the topic of Google pervasively using their dominance of navigation on the Internet for the benefit of their business deserves discussion, but methodologically, I have some qualms here. A lot of the behavior in machine learning systems is emergent. Is it ridiculously convenient that Google alone of all offer providers would end up in the Priority Inbox? Yes. Are there innocent explanations for that, depending on the signals they use? Also yes. It could be as simple as "Google Offers sending IPs have been reported 5 times as spam. Groupon sending IPs have been reported 50,000 times as spam. Reports of spam suggest commercial mail, and we find that customers, on average, prefer not to have commercial email in Priority Inbox, as demonstrated these several gigabytes on usage data we have." (Because Groupon's volume is much, much higher and it is longer established.)