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'You're right in that Google isn't working in your best interest, they're working towards the interest of all of their users.' ..where of course "their users"
by Narkov 14y ago
'You're right in that Google isn't working in your best interest, they're working towards the interest of all of their users.'
..where of course "their users" are actually their advertisers and not mom and pop.
- fpgeek 14y agoThis oversimplification isn't useful and is getting old. If mom and pop don't use the new products Google comes up with, the advertisers will spend less money and/or eventually leave. The incentives are not so nearly misaligned as you suggest.
- Narkov 14y agoNope - everything comes back to advertisers (well, actually, money). If Google could make more money by not offering services do you think they would? Of course they would.
- niels_olson 14y agoI have friends who have not taken jobs at google. I'm pretty sure their issue is allocating scarce engineers, not servers.