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Re: Google Posts

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Post by rjurney »

ianstormtaylor wrote: post #27
axg wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think part of it is due to the fact that Google has greater access to a broader audience. Not everyone will search Twitter for "Donald Trump" but they will certainly search Google - so Google is providing a way for the candidates to take advantage of what is already happening probably millions of times every day.

Agreed. I'd argue further that Twitter has done close to nothing to make their search a useful feature in the first place, which is why people aren't searching Twitter with "Donald Trump". If I was Twitter, this would be very worrying. All they've managed to do so far is "firehose search", which is only useful for realtime events unfolding. They probably should have been thinking about "topic search" and "person sear…

Yeah, the inability to search your Twitter feed is simply infuriating. This is an embarrassingly parallel problem, so the issue isn't scale slowing the development of Search down. Twitter just doesn't give a shit.

Re: Google Posts

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

This seems like a terrible idea. If given access you can now completely control the primary message regarding search terms of yourself. Kinda defeats the purpose of using search as discovery, no?

Re: Google Posts

#53

Post by plcancel »

md224 wrote: post #32

Could be an interesting way for candidates to get in front of third-party spin. When you Google "Bernie Sanders" you could be greeted with rich content from the Sanders campaign explaining his positions, rather than links to hit pieces and other info-detritus. Of course, either way you're getting somebody's propaganda.

My concern is then the composition of the rich content when Google offers itself as the platform. "Welcome, to our podium, Canditate A. We've already constructed the stage and backdrop, too, with these accompanying articles, images, and layout."

It sounds, initially, like Google's role is very passive, but I think control over what surrounds the podium has the potential to be very active. "Hey, Candidate B has better lighting!"

Google as active medium becomes the active message? Thoughts?

Re: Google Posts

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Post by doughj3 »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #31
lukegb wrote: post #10

Some examples of these seem to be: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"

Whoa, I've never seen this privacy reminder box before! Must be an EU-specific thing to try and dissuade them from getting skinned alive by EU privacy laws.

Nope, I see it in the US here.

Re: Google Posts

#56

Post by Dylan16807 »

ppod wrote: post #11

It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

But what makes it more effective than iGoogle wasn't?

Re: Google Posts

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Post by franze »

dgacmu wrote: post #20
ppod wrote: post #11

It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

Or it could be a desire to provide maximally relevant search results. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Dr. Freud. Not-a-disclaimer: I'm spending the year at Google (as a visiting scientist; I don't own stock and have no financial interest in its success). You might be surprised by how strong the desire is to do the right thing by users and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for. There's not always a…

"Gut gemeint ist das Gegenteil von gut!" German saying! Even with the right motive, you can make - in Googles case: systematic - wrong decisions.

Re: Google Posts

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Post by scrollaway »

rjurney wrote: post #48
asdfologist wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah seriously, they keep putting out these products that no one ever wants to use. Like that Google Maps thing or that Chrome browser or whatever. Geez.

Obviously I'm talking about social networks ;)

That's neither obvious from your post, nor is it even valid in this context.
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