About the AOL announcement (2005) • Hacker News Board

Re: About the AOL announcement (2005)

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Post by rossdavidh » Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

ninedays wrote: post #4

> There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever. How times have changed. https://mashable.com/2012/08/28/google-homepage-ad https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-br...

Well, compared to the rest of the internet today (including mashable that you provide a link to), they are wayyyyyy less flashy and graphical. I wish the rest of the internet was a clean as google's homepage.

Re: About the AOL announcement (2005)

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Post by endofcapital » Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 6:37 PM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #19

chasing wrote: post #17

"Our goal is to organize all of the world's information." Funny how this seems much creepier in 2019 than it did in 2005...

Yeah. In 2005 I had no idea they meant "personal information". Although in 2005 maybe they hadn't even realized yet.

They didn't have any clue. Back in 2005 personal data and access logs and analytics was considered a chore, you'd delegate the annoyance of log rotation to some sys admin or helpdesk intern and generally purge all data as quickly as possible because storage was expensive.

Occasionally someone would make a cool tool that parsed htaccess logs and gave you a neat visualization or something, but that was it. Literally nobody tracked anything on the internet.

It almost seems like fiction when I type it out now.

Re: About the AOL announcement (2005)

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Post by londons_explore » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:24 AM UTC

The writing style is really different in Google blog posts today.

It really shows how the blog post passing through PR, legal, etc. review makes it bland and almost meaningless.

Re: About the AOL announcement (2005)

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Post by TagAsDelusion » Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 3:33 PM UTC

benhoyt wrote: post #10

ninedays wrote: post #4

> There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever. How times have changed. https://mashable.com/2012/08/28/google-homepage-ad https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-br...

To be fair, there aren't "banner ads" on either the Google homepage or the search results pages. Neither are there "crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up". There are definitely ads on the search results pages, and they take too much vertical space IMO, but they're text and small images, not flashing and tacky stuff.

to be fair when someone says 'to be fair' the next words typed sure as fuck ain't.