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i get your point but this is really pretty dramatic. it’s a website. not everything needs to be found, let alone searched for
by disantlor 4y ago
i get your point but this is really pretty dramatic.
it’s a website. not everything needs to be found, let alone searched for
- gverrilla 4y ago"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. […]. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media, we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
- ShamelessC 4y agoGreat quote (given the context) - gonna go give this a read now, thanks.
- Gigachad 4y agoAlmost everything posted on this site is blown way out of proportion. Google is a tool you can use if you want. The vast majority of people think it works great. But from the comments that get posted here you'd think the government is sending police forces to bust down your door if you don't endure an hour of google waterboarding.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoMy increasing dissatisfaction with Google’s core product, what made it a company in the first place, it’s prime product, it’s raison d’être, Internet search, is because it now seems to fixate on the most generic terms in my query and returns answers for a question it assumes I have - rather than just being a powerful keyword search like it was two decades ago. You can still use something while lamenting that the product is not as good as it used to be.
- frostwarrior 4y agoEarly google represented "the good guys" against the bully Microsoft. Back then, they created Google Talk which rivaled MSN. Android started as a "open source mobile Linux" which rivaled Windows Phone. People trusted Google as the good guys open source powered company and, when it got big enough, it screwed everyone over. And that disappointment and outrage is still there
- tourist2d 4y ago> when it got big enough, it screwed everyone over How did it screw everyone over? Almost all my non tech friends adore most Google products.
- dymk 4y agoYou may feel screwed over, meanwhile a billion people happily chug away on Google, GMail, and YouTube.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoBut I can’t search for things I know exist and very much want to find. I could previously do this with the same search syntax, really hoping this announcement means I can again. And if that seems dramatic, in the intervening period do you want to know what Google served me for very specific search terms? Malicious content and very little else.
- disantlor 4y agothat sounds frustrating but it’s not the same as being with an abusive partner
- Anyway0161 4y ago
- catach 4y agoConsider that the analogy is intended to illustrate the mechanisms at play, and not the import.
- dymk 4y agoA bad analogy is a bad analogy. If you want to illustrate the mechanism at play, come up with an analogy that fits the situation.
- catach 4y agoI'd agree that it's an overall failed analogy because people here are being distracted by the intensity signal, but I still see it as a good analogy for the purposes of illustrating the mechanism.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI’m sensitive to the distinction you’re making, I have had abusive partners. One of whom is a routine and often daily reminder of things I’d like to leave behind but haven’t yet been able to. I didn’t take the figurative way the other comment was phrased to mean literally that. Because you’re right, it’s not the same.