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Google adds a tag to identify Asian-owned businesses in Search and Maps
- logicalmonster 4y agoSo there's special tags for woman owned, Asian owned, Latino owned, and Black owned businesses. Any groups missing?
- bakesale32 4y ago
- Ycombigatorz 4y ago
- dang 4y agoTrolling HN like this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.
- 2143 4y agoWow you can tell which one is the main account?!
- slater 4y agoIP addresses are a thing!
- News-Dog 4y agoNot just the IP !
- jimmydorry 4y agoIt's too bad that a significant number of people are behind CG-NAT. IP addresses are a terrible proxy for user identity, and continue to get worse as more of the IPV4 space is depleted.
- 2143 4y agoThey aren't that unique. And what if I connect from a different network? I was initially thinking dang uses some AI magic to analyse writing styles to determine if the accounts are operated by the same person.
- Rackedup 4y agoThey probably can uniquely identify your browser even if your IP changes... Firefox shares WAY too much information
- jazzyjackson 4y agomaybe it would be easier for them to consolidate everything under "minority owned" and then let me filter them out of my search results, that would be progressive right?
- solardev 4y ago"Onsite free parking" would be nice.
- josephcsible 4y agoThere are too many people who unironically think that having enough parking spaces is a bad thing for this to ever happen.
- BirdieNZ 4y agoWho are these people who think having enough parking spaces is a bad thing? The closest I can think of are people who think parking minimum regulations should be removed, so that stores and house owners can decide for themselves how much parking they want to put in; certainly a far step different from not wanting an adequate number of parking spaces.
- josephcsible 4y agoI've been to places where it's been $30 to park in a garage that was a 10-minute walk from where I needed to go (and I walk fast). This seems like a clear example of "not enough parking". This city had a parking minimum which was already only barely being met, so removing it would have made this already bad situation way worse.
- mc32 4y agoThey should let people self label any label they like such as “Jovian” or “Mercurial” “Martian”, etc.
- skyde 4y agoarabic :-)
- ergocoder 4y agoWhite? Also, Asian is kinda a big category.
- jjeaff 4y agoWhite supremacists burned that bridge (or cross) long ago. The idea of being "proud" to be white only conjures up one thought for even the most lightly informed about our nation's history. Usually, the point of identifying minority owned business is to allow people to perhaps help make up for historical (or even modern) oppression and help people from those groups overcome systemic issues that have likely made success more difficult for them. White people as a group have not been systemically oppressed.
- hegemon8 4y agoEven the Irish?
- _-david-_ 4y agoHow long do minority owned businesses get this benefit? 10 years? 50 years? 100?
- nullfield 4y agoForever. Once you’re “historically oppressed” or “disadvantaged”, that never goes away.
- _-david-_ 4y agoSince Google is not doing this with white owned businesses that means whites are now disadvantaged so white businesses should now get this forever?
- jjeaff 4y agoI don't know, but we have what, 2 or 3 years so far? Is that just really getting to be too much for you already?
- bilalq 4y agoWhat is "Asian"? Growing up as a Pakistani kid in the US, people would always say how I'm not really Asian. To them, only people from east or south-east Asia counted under that label. Any census-style questions still had me marking as Asian, but there was always a bit of dissonance there. I can maybe see the desire/appeal for a label that means "all Asians except those from the Indian subcontinent, middle-east, or central Asia", but it's always been curious to me that society in America just adopted the word "Asian" for that purpose while excluding so much of "Asia" from falling under that label.
- bilalnpe 4y ago>desire/appeal for a label that means "all Asians except those from the Indian subcontinent, middle-east, or central Asia", That used to be referred to as 'oriental'. Now 'East Asian' is used.
- charlieyu1 4y agoAsia consists of at least 4-5 different geopolitical groups/races that are completely different from each other. Then again, what’s the point of these labels?
- _8j50 4y agoIs a Shawarma shop asian because the middle east is in asia. How about Afghan food, it is solidly central asia. Is sri lankan asian how about indonesian or malay? Indian? I mean I think all these are asian it would just feel inappropriate if this ended up with only east asian places labeled as asian. Why not just use the country's name? I hope Googlers know "asian" isn't a race outside of "social construct" regional similarities in cuisine hower exist so maybe southeast-asian but I would prefer to know what country. Are they serving kimchi for sure or nah??
- themodelplumber 4y agoCountry is awkward too. Like I know a Japanese place owned by a Korean guy who has Vietnamese staff. Food is delicious
- mc32 4y agoSimilarly taco joint owned by a “Korean” man. Food is Mexican owner is American but of Asian ancestry…
- _8j50 4y agoI only thought of the cuisine they served not who owns it or works there. Why would I care about that?
- themodelplumber 4y agoYou can't think of a reason? For example: You bring your friend there, they are from that country, they try their language, it doesn't work, embarrassing moment for everybody. And about 1000 other reasons.
- _8j50 4y agoThey should use the local language? English in US cities that is. How else do they get busienss in the local economy??
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- computerfriend 4y agoWhen are they going to roll this out in Asia?
- syspec 4y agoDid you know, that basically everything to the east of Israel is technically Asian?
- 1shooner 4y agoWhat could possibly go wrong?
- ralusek 4y agoMy informal definition of racism is "utilizes race as a parameter in a decision making process."
- skyde 4y agoi love it
- plastic_bag 4y ago> Google is doing this to stand in support against violent acts that have targeted the Asian community, and COVID-related business closures over the last couple of years. Doesn't labelling businesses as Asian-owned make it easier for the attackers to target them in the future?
- mc32 4y agoIf you look at FBI data it’s not a widespread problem. But I guess instilling fear and then offering comfort sells. I see the “stop hate” in places where there is the least likelihood people would be attacked, you know richer suburban areas with very little crime…
- exolymph 4y agoMy guess is that the people randomly beating up Asians aren't doing a whole lotta research beforehand? Opportunistic, not strategized. I could be wrong though! Anybody else have actual intel on this? I'm just going off the chatter on /r/sanfrancisco and /r/bayarea.
- charlieyu1 4y agoBurglars, on the other hand, are known to do their research while picking their targets. They use chalks to draw symbols to mark houses that are easy to break into (eg symbols to mark the owner is elderly, woman, nobody at day time etc)
- CodeWriter23 4y agoCool. Big Tech driving more division and hate.