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Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
A barrier whose erosion has been well documented over the last 10 years.
Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
Did you experience the Internet before google? The idea of a world where Alta Vista won is truly chilling.
Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
Did you experience the Internet before google? The idea of a world where Alta Vista won is truly chilling.
The internet is boring. And the trash is still there. Its just become reputable instead.
Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
Did you experience the Internet before google? The idea of a world where Alta Vista won is truly chilling.
FYI, it's much easier to read the linked GitHub code via the published docs at https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/api-re...
Notably, for people on HN, it looks like there is indeed an internal initiative to promote small personal blogs :-)
> smallPersonalSite (type: number(), default: nil) - Score of small personal site promotion go/promoting-personal-blogs-v1
TL;DR Google lies about how its search algorithm works.
I understand some of this is a direct contradiction of things they have said in court previously?
Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
No matter what, whatever we ended up with was going to be shitty and exploitive.
Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better results out of the box. I am fairly sure Googlers will tell me there are multiple safeguards to prevent the inclusion of Google ads from affecting ranking, to which I just have to say that the…
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Did you experience the Internet before google? The idea of a world where Alta Vista won is truly chilling.
In some way, didn't Google become Alta Vista?