Google search was great back in the day! It’s a shame what it’s become, but nothing lasts forever.
"Die a hero or live long enough to become the villian"
Google's 25th Birthday
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#12And 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...
They knew it was inevitable.
> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.
- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
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#13Hey Google uh, can you melt an egg? heheh
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#15And they still mark their own email as spam and even phishing after 25 years.
They should get some kind of an award.
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#16Google has been a constant part of my life from early 2000's and I'm grateful to them for providing so many useful products. Most of them were awesome and worked fully without annoying ads or subscriptions. They will come with something new (usually unannounced) and I will be so excited to try it. Technically, they would almost work from day one. Needless to say, I was a Google fanboi during the first decade of the company. Google Search, GMail, Maps, News, Android, Chrome... thanks Google for all these great products. For a commercial company, they had high ethical standards and still seem better than most competition.
Thank you Google, you've made a dent in the universe!
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#17Love 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.
I'd argue we're past the tipping point and moved into negative territory.
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#18Love them or hate them, their impact on the internet and the world is unparalleled - Both positive and negative impact, but mostly positive.
Positive impact: Google maps
The amount of people that were empowered to explore and discover (or time saved from getting lost) is incredible by any measure
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
WEI == web environment integrity
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There is an anti-trust trial against Google going on at the moment.