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Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by boredguy8 »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #6

The lack of eloquence and understanding by those congresspeople is very, very disappointing. Mr. Schmidt answered those questions in an excellent manner. The racetrack analogy was particularly unnerving.

I disagree that he did a good job answering questions. For instance, I have no idea what it means to "game the system" from his description, nor do I understand the consequences if someone were to game it.

How about instead, "If we told everyone our algorithm, when someone searches for this event, it wouldn't be an issue of whether or not your questions or my answers hold the first position, but whether or not the first 100 results are for Viagra or Cialis."

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by jaryd »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #6

The lack of eloquence and understanding by those congresspeople is very, very disappointing. Mr. Schmidt answered those questions in an excellent manner. The racetrack analogy was particularly unnerving.

+1

Did anyone else notice that Al Franken was almost entirely incomprehensible? I'm happy that Schmidt has the presence and patience to pleasantly attempt to correct these scary misinterpretations.

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by jc4p »

kposehn wrote: post #16
kposehn wrote: post #15

Jeff Katz (NexTag) is slamming Google right now for copying his business.

Yelp is up now.

I can't wait until he starts talking about why Google is bad, I wonder if any one knows about Yelp's "pay us for advertising or you'll have your good reviews deleted" policy.

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by yanw »

These senators seemed ignorant about pretty much everything involved.

And as for Mr. Schmidt he should have started by saying that Google is free, it's free for users and for those wanting to be indexed by them so they don't owe any self proclaim competitors anything.

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Post by electrichead »

jc4p wrote: post #17
kposehn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yelp is up now.

I can't wait until he starts talking about why Google is bad, I wonder if any one knows about Yelp's "pay us for advertising or you'll have your good reviews deleted" policy.

This was my first thought as well. I completely disagree with him that Yelp would not have been able to start up right now. Google would have helped drive traffic to yelp now just as it did then. Edit: I think I remember it being "join Yelp so you can delete the bad reviews".

Re: Eric Schmidt Testifies Before Congress

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Post by kposehn »

jc4p wrote: post #17
kposehn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yelp is up now.

I can't wait until he starts talking about why Google is bad, I wonder if any one knows about Yelp's "pay us for advertising or you'll have your good reviews deleted" policy.

Yelp's own actions notwithstanding, it is quite true that Google has pulled some questionable moves and is clearly attempting to drive traffic to their own products.

Not that I like Yelp however ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

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