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by mrkramer 3y ago
>They're good at research. They're bad at turning the research into a product. Tbh, Google Lens is one of the best computer vision products in the market. Generally speaking, it's hard to crate a product around something t
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Imagine a version of ChatGPT that has tight integration with Google Search, Google Scholar, Google Patent, Google Books, Google Deepmind, etc. Google wants Google Bard to become that and use all the Google's services.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Didn't Amazon invest in Google in the Google's early days? Now Google is returning the favor by saying: "Look FTC and DOJ, we are not a monopolist, web users prefer Amazon over Google when they search for products to buy.&quo
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Casual users don't care about ChatGPT or any other smart chat app because they are used to Google Search or classical search bar type web search for decades now. If chat apps take over, I think they will first taker over desktop comput
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Edge is bloated. Microsoft still thinks that more features equals to better product. They bundle everything together to infinity and beyond.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Yea just Google it, and hope Google does not direct you to some phishing website that steals your private information or that offers you to download malware.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Only 8 years old but already dominating web search industry. They destroyed AltaVista within like 5 years.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Or you simply can have a database of all websites' SSL certificates[0] and compare it to the website you are accessing or in this case, compare it to the website that buys ad placement. [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/le
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by mrkramer 3y ago
When you need to find useful information on the web, people on Reddit are better than any search engine. Nothing yet beats human mind.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Target has never publicly disclosed the method through which the attackers exploited these web services. However, the leading theory suggests that suppliers might have been able to upload documents such as invoices via one of the web ap
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by mrkramer 3y ago
I knew who that guy is....a criminal, a drug smuggler, an informant, his fellow criminals would call him a rat, a snitch....but your reasoning is; if he knew how to code and he coded crypto software therefore he could've been or must b
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Personally think there’s a lot of weight behind the notion it was Paul LeRoux I'm glad that you elaborated why you think that's true, shame on me to expect anything. Bitcoin was all about transparency, fighting fraud and crime
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by mrkramer 3y ago
30% of adblock user penetration in the US is not that neglectable.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
But the defaults on the PC and on the mobile are not the same. I can recall that Samsung Android phones shipped with preinstalled Samsung browser and actually a lot of people used Samsung's browser because they just wanted working inte
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Slave implies they do what Google wants them to do, which is demonstrably not the case. Google wants Google to be the default search engine of Mozilla's browser Firefox, Google in order to incentivize them to do it, offers them $45
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Not quite true, around 800 million people use adblockers[0]. [0] https://www.statista.com/topics/3201/ad-blocking/
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by mrkramer 3y ago
"One thing Mozilla does have going for it is a lot of money—more than $1 billion in cash reserves, according to its latest financial statement. The primary source of this capital is Google, which pays Mozilla to be the default search e
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by mrkramer 3y ago
From web pioneer to Google's slave.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
But I don't understand it; if Google's search engine is superior to the other search engines why are they even paying $9bn each year to Apple to be the default search engine on iOS devices? Wouldn't otherwise, iOS users switc
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2023 been such a year for PC gaming that the major games don't fit on a 1TB SSD(pcgamer.com)
2 points by mrkramer 3y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 3y ago
My reasoning is that power users prefer subscription because they use the service more often or matter a fact very often. Casual users would perhaps prefer micropayments so for example you would rather pay a few bucks to watch one movie tha
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Having ever little event in your life become a payment is true dystopia. It's already here for decades; each time you use Google or Facebook, you are giving in your privacy for free use of those services. But casual users don'
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Maybe it's time for micropayments?
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Yea Twitter is falling apart but brands, companies and public people have other huge platforms to reach massive audiences like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube and since recently very popular TikTok. From what I see and understand if
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Google search. Before, it was a resource for you to customize and find what you wanted: information about medicine, a product, or a store. Now, it Comes To You. You search for thing X, you end up in a rabbit hole of Y and Z topics or th
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by mrkramer 3y ago
I kinda understand this because in the first 10 to 15 years of the commercial internet people were eager and hyped to get connected and share everything what they do and think. Later on this backfired with security and privacy issues like n
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>It is fueled by the advertising race (companies bidding against each other to complete for consumer's attention) Exactly but I would like to add that the companies which are in the advertising race are most likely monopolistic comp
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish. Elon is driven by emotions not rationality but I wouldn't be surprised if he goes back to the Twitter logo and brand afte
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Microsoft and Sony Sign Deal to Keep Activision’s Call of Duty on Playstation(cnbc.com)
1 points by mrkramer 3y ago|0 comments
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by mrkramer 3y ago
As Linux, Android, iOS and MacOS are as well.

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