They also kinda build the web though
read. more. tech. history.
You have no idea how furious your comment made me.
Every Google result now looks like an ad
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#62They also kinda build the web though
I thought that was Al Gore?
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#63Perhaps it's worth quoting Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in the original paper on the Google search engine: > "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. ...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers. " ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html ) At th…
They follow up on that thought:
> In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want.
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#64yes, the new design is very bad, those icons are very distracting.... please get back the old design
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#65They also kinda build the web though
They absolutely did not. But even if that were true, how does that excuse this awful behavior?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
They cared not to be evil back then. Now they say they do the right thing, and “right” is subjective.
Evil is also subjective.
Only on the end closest to "neutral", past some arbitrary point your subjective opinion on evil stops mattering to people with morals.
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#68A new search engine outside the hands of Google is overdue. It feels like a huge ad machinery.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evil is also subjective.
And yet they felt the need to remove the "don't be evil" clause from their code of conduct.
Still there, as it always has been.