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The Growing Portrait of Google As A Scary, Expanding Everywhere Copy Monster
- yanw 15y agoThe problem is that credibility is somehow bestowed upon the ramblings of 2nd rate tech pundits, they articulate baseless hypotheses on subjects they know very little about (patents in this case) yet they are taken seriously by many readers. Experts on the other hand aren't getting the attention they should and negative PR thrives in this environment.
- shareme 15y agoeven in the author's known field this author is known somewhat lacking in credibility due numerous rants using baseless hypotheses on a subject allegedly the author has expertise in.. Of course than again did the author just copy and paste TC's thesis on said subject?
- rryan 15y agoSeriously! Brian Hall wrote essentially 5 paragraphs of word vomit that seemed somewhat indistinguishable from a Markov model trained on a bunch of phrases about Google combined with some conspiracy theory websites. I was /shocked/ to see John Gruber posting it as an example of something insightful to read. From then on the tech-press echo-chamber went into full effect.