Web by Google (TM)
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Web by Google (TM)
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#2It does look pretty tragic at this point. But it’s worth noting that every tech business so far was talked about as if it’s taken over the world, forever, and without 5-10-20 years they were overtaken. IBM, Intel, Microsoft.
I think google is overplaying their hand in many areas, and this will inevitably lead to the downfall of their dominance. Just like most other large businesses in history.
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#3You can blame Google for a lot - however I believe if it wasn't about Google someone else would dictate the game.
In the past it was Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, XFire, .. I mean those companys were so big (e. g. XFire for gaming streaming) but they failed to stay ahead of time - lets see whats up with Google or Facebook or Amazon in 15 years.
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#4AMP still makes no sense. On iOS, Android and Windows it’s completely broken and friction increasing to grab a link to send to a friend in another medium.
Not only that but it seems the page slightly degrades sometimes.
For what? A theoretical page load time improvement? Maybe that’s naive but we already have “request desktop mode” to allow for bifurcated experiences. Why do we need a third thats seemingly even worse?
Total “get off my lawn” complaint but how do you turn the damn AMP off? :)
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#5> Google’s capture of the Web is a fait accompli. Only legislation will keep the World Wide Web from finally becoming Web by Google (TM).
I really hope it's not the case, because then Google will cancel it. /s
Search is probably something where there could be creative use of the p2p decentralized technologies. If when performing a search I could ask my contacts to look in their history if they have something matching, and then they ask their contact to do the same, who ask their contact to do the same, I think we could have fast and massively parallelized trust based searches. Then you can rank the results based on how many times they appeared.
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#6It does look pretty tragic at this point. But it’s worth noting that every tech business so far was talked about as if it’s taken over the world, forever, and without 5-10-20 years they were overtaken. IBM, Intel, Microsoft. I think google is overplaying their hand in many areas, and this will inevitably lead to the downfall of their dominance. Just like most other large businesses in history.
I'd argue that they tend not to lose on their home turf, but rather the ground moves under them. Google only increased it's hold in the web as Facebook took the new territory of social media.
Likewise Microsoft still is a massive player in enterprise software even as AWS became a virtual synonym for cloud computing.
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#7It does look pretty tragic at this point. But it’s worth noting that every tech business so far was talked about as if it’s taken over the world, forever, and without 5-10-20 years they were overtaken. IBM, Intel, Microsoft. I think google is overplaying their hand in many areas, and this will inevitably lead to the downfall of their dominance. Just like most other large businesses in history.
So another large company will take them over. We need to legislate this now to avoid this endless cycle
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#8I think we’re in a real low point right now. Gmail, AMP, Chrome, Android. So many peoples internet experience is from one place.
With Amazon dominating retail, and Facebook under its various brands dominating social media, there isn’t much scope for other players.
I don’t see another option than breaking theses companies up at this point.
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#9AMP still makes no sense. On iOS, Android and Windows it’s completely broken and friction increasing to grab a link to send to a friend in another medium. Not only that but it seems the page slightly degrades sometimes. For what? A theoretical page load time improvement? Maybe that’s naive but we already have “request desktop mode” to allow for bifurcated experiences. Why do we need a third thats seemingly even worse…
It's a lot of effort to maintain AMP pages for all your site content alongside the standard pages over time. That's why they tend to degrade.
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#10> And let’s not forget that most people now access the web via mobile devices, 75% of which run Google’s Android.
Which is a good thing, because these devices can actually run different browser rendering engines.
Perhaps the bigger problem is that devices ship with Chrome pre-installed instead of asking the user at device set-up time what browser they want to use.
I imagine if you told the user they could have a browser with extensions, ad-blocking, background playback etc they might be a bit more inclined to consider using Firefox.