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by mrkramer 3y ago
I wouldn't say so; I would rather say that the internet ad industry got more concentrated and centralized around Google and Facebook and that's why for example online news industry started rapidly losing their ad revenue and switc
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Kevin Systrom (Instagram founder) worked at Twitter in the early days and he said that Jack was super smart and hard working which I doubt with all respect to the Twitter. He grandiosely failed at managing Vine which was supposed to be TikT
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by mrkramer 3y ago
So how do you differentiate blue links that all look the same? I mean yes there is description of a search result but that doesn't tell you very much about the website or the quality of information that you are getting. Bing did a good
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by mrkramer 3y ago
In the first sentence they mention AI, that's how I know it's doomed.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
I've tried ChatGPT inside Microsoft's Bing search engine and it is pretty good so far. It definitely saved me time that I would lose clicking on search results and skimming through websites looking for useful information.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>Googling a problem gives you all kinds of results, which you then need to dig through and understand in order to evaluate whether there's something that can be adapted to your use case. Exactly; search engines give you those blue l
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Idk tbh how Microsoft pulled off Windows and Office but they showed real incompetence with Skype. OK, they acquired Skype and what did they do with it?! Let it rot for years. No vison, no new features....they missed the opportunity with mob
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by mrkramer 3y ago
It would make room for relevant results.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
There is a YouTube Premium and I don't see a reason why there couldn't exist Google Search Premium but that again doesn't solve the problem of SEO spam and garbage websites.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
It's called opportunity cost; while you are scrolling through blue links that all look the same and clicking mindlessly on them, maybe there was other better and more efficient way to look up and find useful information.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
I just tested it on my Android phone; when you search for something in Android Google app, you need to swipe right and then tap "Tools" and you will see "Any time" option/filter. Unfortunately "Custom range&quo
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by mrkramer 3y ago
This was part of one of their A/B tests....you can still sort Google search results by date. Speaking of YouTube, YouTube still is not good enough features wise. I'm a software maximalist and I would like to be able to search comm
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by mrkramer 3y ago
OP or mod should edit the title and add [2019] and btw you can sort Google search results by date. This was probably one of their experiments to see how would users react and start behaving without being able to sort search results by date.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
At least somebody at YouTube figured out that only being able to sort channels' videos by "Latest" and "Popular" is silly so couple of days ago they introduced or reintroduced sorting of channels' videos by &qu
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Bitcoin is a commodity [0] under the US Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and it is regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). [0] https://www.cftc.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/oceo_bi
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by mrkramer 3y ago
Grace period of unregulated crypto is over. Brace yourself, SEC is coming!
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A.I. poses human extinction risk on par with nuclear war, Sam Altman warns(cnbc.com)
2 points by mrkramer 3y ago|1 comments
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>The market is definitely there for enterprise LLMs. Also in the news: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/chegg-drops-more-than-40perc... >but the real value comes from replace internal “tribal knowledge”
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>My best guess is entering "personal or company related information into the services"? I'm not really familiar exactly on how ChatGPT works but does it get trained on input data(search queries)? People are also "leak
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Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees(cnbc.com)
240 points by mrkramer 3y ago|247 comments
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by mrkramer 3y ago
I was speaking about other cloud gaming providers not Steam. And Steam is the biggest digital distributor of Windows PC games so it makes 100% sense for Microsoft to offer their games on Steam.
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by mrkramer 3y ago
But Microsoft has the upper hand in the cloud gaming industry according to CMA. Apparently Xbox Cloud has 60-70% of the market share. Activision Blizzard acquisition would only strengthen Microsoft's position and would not improve comp
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by mrkramer 3y ago
>I also think the CMAs rationale for their decision is bizarre and shows a lack of understanding of the space. They blocked the acquisition on a premise that cloud gaming will be huge in the future and that Microsoft might make Activisio
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Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job(theguardian.com)
216 points by mrkramer 3y ago|202 comments
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I never used an iPhone and I don't really know how horrible it is but if people are annoyed with iOS and iPhone, they can always use Android devices. Android devices are on a par with iPhones unlike 10 years ago.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
I meant Valve didn't want Steam to be flooded with low quality games (back in the day) which would interest nobody and would only turn away people from Steam. >I'd fine with Apple just curating their App Store; I am not fine wi
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by mrkramer 4y ago
That's why Windows is beautiful, all APIs are open for developers to use for whatever they want.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
Apple's exclusivity on allowing and deciding what goes on the AppStore and on the iOS was their way of controlling the user experience and their way to ensure future sales of iPhones. They didn't want that iOS, AppStore and iPhone
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Cloud gaming is.
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by mrkramer 4y ago
>Out of this list of 6 major Earth-shaking products only 3 came from Google itself. YouTube, Android, and Maps were all acquisitions. They tried to compete with YouTube, it didn't work out but hey we have deep pocket, let's buy

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