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I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble
I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble You might be surprised what Joe Average uses. I run into people who not only still use MapQuest, but use it as a verb.
This is getting silly at this point.
I agree, BUT one thing that has blown my mind and forced me to reconsider a lot of this stuff that that women make 70-80% of consumer purchases. So, if you are advertising, you are pretty much advertising to women. The ruination of Reddit made no sense to me, Facebook made no sense to me, Instagram, etc. all that nonsense made no sense to me, until I realized that ALL of that stuff is for women. Seen in this light it…
Why do all of these landing pages make zero effort to say what the hell the product is
The Google app on my iPhone enabled this a few weeks ago (The home section shows news below the search bar.) The UX was extremely confusing as there was no scrolling, swiping changed stories, and tapping went to the next page. The content was 90% image and 10% text and was extremely annoying to read. It was also inconsistent from other content, as unlike the other "non-story" items, I could not change preferences (ie…
It’s like the blink tag, but instead of being the result of a drunken bet on Castro St in Mountain View, it’s the result of $1,000,000’s in engineering effort and focus groups.
When can we expect to find Google Stories here? https://killedbygoogle.com/
THANK YOU TITLE for calling this Google Stories. 100% yes. Google Web Stories, if you must include the Web part of the proper name.
The sole reason this is called "Web Stories" is because the AMP team believes their proprietary fork of the web constitutes being part of "team web", as opposed to apps.
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They still make exciting technology. Google's search is still far better than the competition . The Pixel computational photography app is cutting edge. Their translation and speech synthesis are great. They are still good at "organizing the world's information". They fail when they try to mimic their competitors. Their cloud services trail Amazon. Their hardware trails Apple. Their social media trails... everybody.…
> Their social media trails... everybody. While it still existed, Google+ was far better than any other popular social media site around. I'm sure I don't need to offer any critique of Facebook, and Twitter's UX was an absolute disaster before they implemented usable threading. Sure, our grandmothers weren't going to start using it, but I've seen what they're posting on Facebook and as far as I'm concerned that was a…
It had working pseudonymity.
I could also post to different contexts from the same persona.
It was easy to read.
I experienced little spam and next to no politics.
Probably more.
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Vomit. The web is turning into Entertainment Tonight, the show my mom used to watch. Ads disguised as content.
>Ads disguised as content. Sure feels like the final evolution of ads will be indistinguishable from content.
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I have the unfortunate inkling that this is here to stay. In hindsight it seems obvious that Google Search will implement the most successful and ubiquitous features of social media. I don't like it, but the pressure this will create for companies to compete in this space will be huge.
But does Google Search have an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp yet?
Maybe something like emacs, but AMP-based, and we'll have the worst of two worlds!