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As a customer, Google's behavior sucks. But for the industry, it's good that Google continues with their self-harming behavior and lack of concern over the spre
by lovelearning 4y ago
As a customer, Google's behavior sucks. But for the industry, it's good that Google continues with their self-harming behavior and lack of concern over the spreading negative perception. Creates opportunities for smaller players. A responsive Google would be worse for the industry than this daft Google.
- justinbaker84 4y agoI think you are correct when thinking about the long term future of the ecosystem, but if your business gets crushed because you can't advertise on Google then it doesn't feel so good. Engineers on Hacker News don't understand how much of the advertising world runs through Google. Not being able to advertise on Google is like saying you can't do any backend engineering at your company you can only do front end.
- hedora 4y agoAdvertisers on Hacker News don't understand how much of the engineering world wants the entire targeted advertising world to go up in flames. :-)
- justinbaker84 4y agoCool, enjoy getting almost no new business creation in the world. I'm sure you will love living in a world where incumbents pretty much have total control over everything.
- numpad0 4y agoCreates opportunities for competitors to Google itself, maybe, but not good for small players reliant on web ads.