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This is honestly disgusting. I really don't want to use google anymore. This will probably be a big win for Kagi or smth.
by gorenb 3y ago
This is honestly disgusting. I really don't want to use google anymore. This will probably be a big win for Kagi or smth.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> The main lesson Google appears to have learned from the Microsoft antitrust case from the 1990s is that media scrutiny and bad headlines can sink a corporate defendant’s reputation, if not its case. I tend to agree with this though, and this reason isn't disgusting. What am I missing?
- red_trumpet 3y agoImo it is reasonable, but still disgusting. They don't want the public to know how they operate, because that reflects badly on them. A bit like you wouldn't necessarily tell your neighbor you're having an affair.
- repelsteeltje 3y ago> They don't want the public to know how they operate, because that reflects badly on them. Fair enough, if the way they operate is legal, but a trade secret/competitive advantage/... But since this is about antitrust, I'm hoping we'll get so see exactly how they operate with respect to allegedly violating the law.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> They don't want the public to know how they operate, because that reflects badly on them I think there's more to it than that. That may well be true, who knows, but it's also the endless punditry and click-baitery that will surround any information here, which will just spread "takes" and thus opinions with little basis in reality. That is to say, there is a legitimate fear that even a well-behaved organisation will be not understood as such when a pundit industry's salary depends on its not understanding it as such.
- smoldesu 3y agoAre there any FAANG companies that would want to show the public how they operate?
- w______roy 3y agoThink of it another way: transparency hurt a criminal corporation’s ability to use its army of lawyers to defend itself.