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"I work on Google Fiber. You give us money, we give you an Internet connection." Real revolutionary, I tell you. No doubt Page and Sergey are having wet dreams

"I work on Google Fiber. You give us money, we give you an Internet connection." Real revolutionary, I tell you. No doubt Page and Sergey are having wet dreams by dreaming of the extra data that they get by spying on even more things. Because that's what every Google products ends up being, a snooping device to help Google sell more expensive ads. There's no pride or code of honor at Google, just more ad clicks than the last quarter. Maybe a put a microphone on each of our rooms to help us? Will that come before or after the brain chip? http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/23260/freaky-future-ok-google-ceiling-microphones-and-brain-microchips-coming-2018 http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/23260/freaky-future-o... By the way, is what I said true (fraud accounts for most of Google's income)?

jsmthrowaway 13y ago
Google is by no means a 100% perfect actor but some of your claims found their way into tinfoil territory. And no, fraud does not account for most of Google's income. Google is a public company and you are more than welcome to review those figures yourself. And in my limited experience at Google, I found that most people are very prideful about what they are doing. It's just unfortunate that most things Google are doing revolve around, in the end, advertising impressions.
- choosewisely 13y ago
  And no, fraud does not account for most of Google's income. Google is a public company and you are more than welcome to review those figures yourself. Fraud: saying from every top of the mountain that we serve results best for the users, we serve unbiased results, you can't buy a top rank on Google etc etc etc and then showing barely distinguishable (from content) ads on top and in many case showing almost all ads. That's fraud to me, regardless of the fact that we have a toothless FTC. What % of users know a Google ad vs unbiased content? What % of users know that Google Products is 100% ads and in many cases it cost them a fortune? If Google wanted users to know ads or bought rank from unbiased ones they'd find the way. They can just undo what they did from around 2007 until now.
  - hanspeide 13y ago
    I'm sure a lot of people would welcome a free alternative without ads. Now go code it. Oh, wait...
    - choosewisely 13y ago
      From one extreme to another, from no ads to virtually all ads. Sure there must something in between? And there's a huge difference in clearly marked ads and those that are ads but seem like unbiased "opinion"

jsmthrowaway 13y ago

Google is by no means a 100% perfect actor but some of your claims found their way into tinfoil territory. And no, fraud does not account for most of Google's income. Google is a public company and you are more than welcome to review those figures yourself. And in my limited experience at Google, I found that most people are very prideful about what they are doing. It's just unfortunate that most things Google are doing revolve around, in the end, advertising impressions.

choosewisely 13y ago
And no, fraud does not account for most of Google's income. Google is a public company and you are more than welcome to review those figures yourself. Fraud: saying from every top of the mountain that we serve results best for the users, we serve unbiased results, you can't buy a top rank on Google etc etc etc and then showing barely distinguishable (from content) ads on top and in many case showing almost all ads. That's fraud to me, regardless of the fact that we have a toothless FTC. What % of users know a Google ad vs unbiased content? What % of users know that Google Products is 100% ads and in many cases it cost them a fortune? If Google wanted users to know ads or bought rank from unbiased ones they'd find the way. They can just undo what they did from around 2007 until now.
- hanspeide 13y ago
  I'm sure a lot of people would welcome a free alternative without ads. Now go code it. Oh, wait...
  - choosewisely 13y ago
    From one extreme to another, from no ads to virtually all ads. Sure there must something in between? And there's a huge difference in clearly marked ads and those that are ads but seem like unbiased "opinion"