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by yanw 15y ago
I use the same language against the same language. Are you a lawyer?
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by yanw 15y ago
You don't need a G+ profile for Gmail.
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by yanw 15y ago
Google does not own 90% of the market and their product is free as their competitors' products so there is no harm to consumers. As for Yelp, they asked to not appear on Places and Google told them to use robots.txt if they don't want to be
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by yanw 15y ago
Not that tired meme again. No, it's not the same as Windows+IE: in this case both products are free and both you do not own, it's just a website you visit basically. Also you are not trapped into them and Google didn't go about threatening
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by yanw 15y ago
Then educate those people and don't push for some nanny-state mandate by which even if the freedom to switch services is available one service must freely advertise all the others. Not to mention the hypocrisy of Facebook/Twitter blocking d
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by yanw 15y ago
I have no idea why would anyone feel entitled to any sort of placement in Google search results, they do not charge anyone for being indexed, and if you don't care for the results that is what the address bar on web browsers is for. This wh
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by yanw 15y ago
There is no more a "real name" requirement for G+.
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by yanw 15y ago
They started allowing aliases on G+.
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by yanw 15y ago
For Google Apps G+ is an opt-in service.
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by yanw 15y ago
Confusion? this is the first time Google has a clear and cohesive identity platform for all their services.
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by yanw 15y ago
How is it you figure that this warrants any sort of investigation exactly? I don't see any other issues with this neither: it applies for new signups, existing users aren't required to open G+ account or anything else. It's funny how people
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Building an HTML5 photo booth with Chrome's new WebRTC API (arstechnica.com)
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by yanw 15y ago
email: security@google.com They usually reply within 24hrs.
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by yanw 15y ago
Our tax dollars at work :P
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by yanw 15y ago
Seriously!? "Fairsearch"? are you a fan of the propaganda? because this incident is already well covered, the source is the first item on HN and there are plenty of related blogspam posted afterword as well.
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by yanw 15y ago
That is why it has the "Paste as plain text" option.
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by yanw 15y ago
Google's statement via: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-investigating-keny... We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our relationship with
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by yanw 15y ago
Someone is suggesting that HK auto-kills .co.ke links: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460186
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by yanw 15y ago
The link was probably nuked because of it's all caps headline, try resubmitting it now using a headline with less caps.
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by yanw 15y ago
I'm assuming it was flagged because the headline was in ALL CAPS.
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by yanw 15y ago
Microsoft does the same with their Facebook integration and even a “cluttered” Google is still superior: http://marketingland.com/twitter-google-wwe-bing-3206 The fact that search engines can be swapped on a whim nullifies antitrust conc
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by yanw 15y ago
Nothing's wrong with it but the imaginary non issues invented by a bunch of bloggers pretending to be lawyers.
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by yanw 15y ago
Will the government come along and knock some heads together in a few years? Maybe. But this is a much more nuanced situation that Microsoft’s execution of Netscape. That could take years and years, and the government may question Facebook
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by yanw 15y ago
"Breaking away" as you describe it sounds like innovation to me, and pacing innovation to standard bodies would kill it. I can't think of specifics but surly most of what is considered the standard today was once the experimentation of one
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by yanw 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3456594
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by yanw 15y ago
See my comment regarding standards: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3456594 At the top it shows the number of public and private results, and the picture cluster always was there, they just added social relevancy to it.
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by yanw 15y ago
But they are adhering to standards as well, more so than anyone else for that matter, point to an instance where they're not. Also it takes ages for stuff to get standardized, are you suggesting that no technology should be applicable until
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by yanw 15y ago
This meme about Google turning into "old bad Microsoft" is a result of false dichotomy. Search+'s effect on the results page is peripheral, manifesting on the right pane and search suggestions, the main results are largely the same and ther
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by yanw 15y ago
It's hardly a "debacle" though, it's just a bunch of bloggers baiting web traffic by pretending to be lawyers.
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by yanw 15y ago
IANAL so I'm just speculating that if you don't pay for a service you can't claim that you're owed anything, in this case those being freely indexed by Google feeling that they are entitled to a placement in search results.

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