How long until Google deprecates this feature?
In a big way, it's extremely beneficial that they remove features. Organizations that don't die of bloat.
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#82It is scary how much power and influence Google now have in setting the agenda for public discourse. When this opens up to other "prominent figures and organizations", it will be at Google's discretion who is worthy of the public's attention and which issues and areas will get this treatment. This seems a step beyond simply organising the world’s information. Even if it's with the best intentions, the fact is that th…
Even if Google was 100% unbiased politically, providing yet another major outlet for people who have no problem getting their message out already seems redundant, unless the point is just to reinforce existing power and influence.
I don't expect them to promote any old blogger with an opinion (though I'd even prefer that to this), but giving a platform to marginal/dissident figures or organizations, from any part of the political spectrum, would at least serve some kind of interesting or useful purpose.
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#83It is scary how much power and influence Google now have in setting the agenda for public discourse. When this opens up to other "prominent figures and organizations", it will be at Google's discretion who is worthy of the public's attention and which issues and areas will get this treatment. This seems a step beyond simply organising the world’s information. Even if it's with the best intentions, the fact is that th…
Does Google win by suppressing speech, even if those voices counter Google's ambitions? Google would do itself a disservice by cutting out people who rail against Google specifically or against what Google stands for generally.
Google's bottom line is dependant on capturing all the data.
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#84It is scary how much power and influence Google now have in setting the agenda for public discourse. When this opens up to other "prominent figures and organizations", it will be at Google's discretion who is worthy of the public's attention and which issues and areas will get this treatment. This seems a step beyond simply organising the world’s information. Even if it's with the best intentions, the fact is that th…
> This seems a step beyond simply organising the world’s information.
It is just the contrary since very few can post there. Then, if they prioritize these people/services on their search above others it turns the navigation path to a place owned by Google.
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#85I wonder if this is open to all 1,649 presidential candidates, or just 2 or 5? http://www.fec.gov/data/Form2Filer.do?format=html On another note, I wonder if this has anything to do with Medium who has been positioning itself in Washington and C-suites as the "default place for people to go when they have ideas of consequence." http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/how-medium-is-breaking...
There's something comical about that list of candidates.
Why haven't heard of these guys before?
Does this happen every year?
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#86It is scary how much power and influence Google now have in setting the agenda for public discourse. When this opens up to other "prominent figures and organizations", it will be at Google's discretion who is worthy of the public's attention and which issues and areas will get this treatment. This seems a step beyond simply organising the world’s information. Even if it's with the best intentions, the fact is that th…
The potential for Google to therefore decide who gets to speak, and therefore who doesn't, is terrifying.
Terrifying? I assume you're living in a constant state of fear then, because television networks already have and use that power.
On the contrary I'd say that in this field the more players there are, the better.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
The potential for Google to therefore decide who gets to speak, and therefore who doesn't, is terrifying.
Terrifying? I assume you're living in a constant state of fear then, because television networks already have and use that power. On the contrary I'd say that in this field the more players there are, the better.
There are thousands of television channels. As far as most people are concerned, when it comes to search, there is only Google.
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#88It is scary how much power and influence Google now have in setting the agenda for public discourse. When this opens up to other "prominent figures and organizations", it will be at Google's discretion who is worthy of the public's attention and which issues and areas will get this treatment. This seems a step beyond simply organising the world’s information. Even if it's with the best intentions, the fact is that th…
Even if Google was 100% unbiased politically, providing yet another major outlet for people who have no problem getting their message out already seems redundant, unless the point is just to reinforce existing power and influence. I don't expect them to promote any old blogger with an opinion (though I'd even prefer that to this ), but giving a platform to marginal/dissident figures or organizations, from any part of…
> (...) giving a platform to alternative/marginal/dissident figures or organizations, from any part of the political spectrum, would at least have some point and be a lot more interesting.
Sounds like a possible startup if there's a way to generate revenue from such a platform.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm thrilled to report that uBlock Origin completely strips out this spam on the search results page. I was worried that it might take some time to filter out this noise from the search results page, but apparently not!
So uBlock is actually blocking a site's own content? I've heard a lot about false positives but this takes the price.
No content is hidden from my side[1] -- I am using default filter lists. Poster must have some custom filters, or using some other 3rd-party filter list which causes this. The logger would tell why content is blocked on his side.
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#90I wonder if this is open to all 1,649 presidential candidates, or just 2 or 5? http://www.fec.gov/data/Form2Filer.do?format=html On another note, I wonder if this has anything to do with Medium who has been positioning itself in Washington and C-suites as the "default place for people to go when they have ideas of consequence." http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/how-medium-is-breaking...
There's something comical about that list of candidates. Why haven't heard of these guys before? Does this happen every year?
As far as I know, yes.
For that matter, read your ballot carefully. There's more than just Republican and Democrat that make it to the final ballot. If nothing else you can pick up some terms to Google and learn about. Mostly for your intellectual curiosity, since generally the other parties manage to pick up little more than low-dozens of County Dogcatcher-level positions per election in the entire nation.