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Did the verge seriously cite a single hackernews comment as a source? "There is a growing chorus of complaints that Google is not as accurate, as competent, as
by chickenpotpie 3y ago
Did the verge seriously cite a single hackernews comment as a source?
"There is a growing chorus of complaints that Google is not as accurate, as competent, as dedicated to search as it once was"
The word "growing" is a link to hackernews
- kipchak 3y agoI saw a funny song on YouTube about it, if that counts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY
- paxys 3y agoThis is how a lot of online journalism works today. Come up with an agenda you want to push that is sure to start flame wars (and drive advertising traffic), search for it on Twitter, find a single Tweet posted by anyone that agrees with your view (or just post it yourself from an alt account), and write a clickbait title and short article linking to that Tweet. "Subscribers quitting Netflix in droves over new policy." "No one uses Google anymore." "AI replacing 80%+ of programmers at software companies." "People outraged over [latest nothingburger]." You can come up with an unlimited amount of catchy content, and most of it makes it to the front page of sites like HN and Reddit.
- rvz 3y agoThe Verge has always been considered a tabloid source. No different to the Daily Mail, since they both have heavy use of ads and affiliate links in every section and corner of their articles.
- freeone3000 3y agoIn one sense, that’s how people talk to each other. The reporter is based “growing” off of people talking about it. It’s sort of unclear how many people need to talk about a thing for it to be part of culture? Or if these articles should even exist in the world of interconnectivity? But our lives are online now — this is a quote from a “man on the street”.