Google's 25th Birthday
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Google's 25th Birthday
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#2Hmm, I guess it's nothing to celebrate, what with all the attacks on privacy and the open web they've been doing.
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#3Google search was great back in the day! It’s a shame what it’s become, but nothing lasts forever.
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#4And how far they've strayed from the beginning. Don't be evil. Won't show ads inline with search results that look like organic links. Constant product churn, search results inundated by click farms, and one can't leave out WEI...
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#5Love them or hate them, their impact on the internet and the world is unparalleled - Both positive and negative impact, but mostly positive.
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#6And how far they've strayed from the beginning. Don't be evil. Won't show ads inline with search results that look like organic links. Constant product churn, search results inundated by click farms, and one can't leave out WEI...
Funny how they introduced WEI using an unknown dev in the UK. It seems dirty. Like something that wouldn't be ethical to have a person do, even if that person agreed to do it. They still haven't gone and officially claimed it, months later it's under the developer with a rubber duck for an avatar and 26 followers on GitHub.
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#7I fell in love with Google when I used their first Gmail beta version (Google search was the beginning of the affair). It was a fresh new outlook (pun?) to how email should be. And Google wave was a jaw dropper for me. It did not succeed but the tech was solid for its time. Eric Schmidt did an absolutely wonderful job. Then came Chrome and Android and YouTube. Their knack of creating/acquiring the best products and making them world class peaked in 2013 I feel. When Larry took over, I was overjoyed since he is the quintessential nerd. But alas it was Elon Musk and not Larry Page. The Google Glass demo was stellar too but again failed to commercialize. Their early thoughts on high altitude internet balloons and self driving cards enthralled the crap out of me. I always wanted to work with Google.
I hope it returns to "Don't be Evil" mantra and create/acquire some world class products again.
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#8I’m surprised the first result today for “how to cut a pineapple” isn’t an SEO optimized recipe with a wall of nonsense to scroll past before the actual instructions
How much tuning did Google need to do for that?
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#9And how far they've strayed from the beginning. Don't be evil. Won't show ads inline with search results that look like organic links. Constant product churn, search results inundated by click farms, and one can't leave out WEI...
Funny how they introduced WEI using an unknown dev in the UK. It seems dirty. Like something that wouldn't be ethical to have a person do, even if that person agreed to do it. They still haven't gone and officially claimed it, months later it's under the developer with a rubber duck for an avatar and 26 followers on GitHub.
What am I missing out on here?
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#10Love them or hate them, their impact on the internet and the world is unparalleled - Both positive and negative impact, but mostly positive.
> but mostly positive.
For now. But I see they are working extremely hard to change that.