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Google is literally the only tech giant with an interest in the open internet. Facebook scored the mortal wound on the web — they reinvented a bigger, badder AOL closed garden.
Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of building kick-ass web apps.
Fixed it for you.
Lots of my URLs were either "Discovered – currently not indexed" or "Crawled - currently not indexed", but spam sites are happily searchable with the exact same content. And I don't want spend to fight SEO.
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Google is literally the only tech giant with an interest in the open internet. Facebook scored the mortal wound on the web — they reinvented a bigger, badder AOL closed garden.
Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of building kick-ass web apps.
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Google is literally the only tech giant with an interest in the open internet. Facebook scored the mortal wound on the web — they reinvented a bigger, badder AOL closed garden.
Just like how YouTube has become a more open and free platform in their care. Or how search results have become more open and free since they dominated market share.
Most of my searches result in a wall of sales or product pages. Hardly 'open' when they turned it into glorified yellow pages
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Google's main product is ads, not search. Search (and Mail, and Video) are just mechanisms for offering ads. By balkanising the internet they can have a monopoly over offering ads to certain target groups that fall within their walled garden.
That isn't how this works, Google doesn't have good enough content to compete with other tech giants without the open web. If Google kills the web then Google kills itself. Most of their money comes from their search web page and not the ads from other sites, so people browsing the web is their main source of revenue. Their other sites are big, yes, but not big enough to make them one of the few most valuable compani…
That's why Google instead reshapes the web as Google sees fit.
> Anyway, Google works hard to make the open web competitive with all the walled gardens around
No. It subsumes the web and replaces it with all things Google. It dominates all web-related standards bodies, pushes through half-baked Chrome-only APIs as "standards" and then presents them as fait accompli through Google-controlled properties like web.dev.
It sometimes seems like Google’s internal self-image is stuck in 2001, when they were an idealistic search engine company whose goal was to organize the world’s information.
Today they are an ad company, running some office apps and cloud computing on the side. The transition has been great for revenue but it seems like they long ago sold the moral authority to make pronouncements about the free and open Internet.
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Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of building kick-ass web apps.
I've yet to see a single kick ass web app from Google. All of them are barely functioning slow-as-molasses slugs (or I'm jaded by the entire GCP experience).
It seems lately that Google has just become Yet Another Large Software Firm, with everything that that implies.
Disclaimer: I worked at Google for 12 years.