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Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by yaix »

I agree that Goog is currently making mistakes, but this one isn't one of them. Of course they consolidate all the upvoting and liking stuff into one database to then use that in their universal search ranking. Whining about not getting upvoted by anonymous users is a little silly, because your competition doesn't either.

If you want to talk about huge mistakes of Goog, count the seconds it takes to execute all the JS crap they have stuffed even into the simplest of their pages now. Or talk about their failed attempt of a re-design and even them following the current position:fixed; hype, cluttering small screens with headers and footers that don't scroll (the rainbow of our times).

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by est »

jrockway wrote: post #209
Auguste wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Years later, it still annoys me that you need a Google account to sign up for YouTube.

What's the difference between having a Google account and a YouTube account? Google owns YouTube.

It's the difference like you have to get a Condé Nast subscription in order to comment on reddit.

Condé Nast owns reddit, remember?

I don't want to link my personal email (Gmail) account with the what cats I watch on the Internet.

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by throwaway64 »

sp332 wrote: post #110
jgroome wrote: post #42

G+ is a joke. Nobody outside of the tech and geek industries either wants it or uses it. And yet they carry on doing everything they can just to herd people into creating G+ accounts. Hey, it might work. Got to get those numbers up, right? But they can't make me USE my G+ account.

Any page with a +1 button on it reports your visit back to Google. Even if you don't push the button! So now Google can mine your browsing history for advertisers.

you do realize that any page that contains google analytics (practically every website) will do the same thing right?

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by sesqu »

fear91 wrote: post #196
waqf wrote: post #170

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what are your references for: (i) selling your information to governments (emphasis added) (ii) strong supporter of CISPA?

Sending users detail to governments: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/... Google supportive of CISPA: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/report-google-...

That's not selling user details.

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by jrockway »

est wrote: post #212
jrockway wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the difference between having a Google account and a YouTube account? Google owns YouTube.

It's the difference like you have to get a Condé Nast subscription in order to comment on reddit. Condé Nast owns reddit, remember? I don't want to link my personal email (Gmail) account with the what cats I watch on the Internet.

Which email address would you use to register for the YouTube account?

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by anigbrowl »

fusiongyro wrote: post #208
VikingCoder wrote: post #188

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> giving a +1 to a video that could possibly go on your Google+ wall (if that even exists) It does not exist. You can specifically Share a video with Circles. > influence your search results in ways you don't want, In the upper right on your Search page, you can click "Hide personal results." > or show up awkwardly in other strange ways while using other Google products like Gmail [citation needed] > The real problem…

> [citation needed] Lubujackson's entire point is that we don't know what the consequences will be .

Ignorance is a poor excuse for inaction.

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by jal278 »

I had a similar response to "fab" this evening, some kind of design site. It looked interesting but in order to even view a product linked from facebook they required me to sign up. Immediate rage; I can't investigate if the site is interesting enough to meriting signing up because signing up is required to investigate. No thanks.

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

jonnathanson wrote: post #119
waterlesscloud wrote: post #68

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I haven't seen a convincing argument that Google needs social. I know they believe it, I just haven't seen anything that made a compelling case that it's actually true.

Advertising is the vast majority of Google's revenue. How vast? AdWords alone accounts for 97% of Google's earnings. The strategic vulnerability of that position cannot possibly be overstated. Along comes Facebook, which could (in theory, at least) roll out a perfectly competitive product to threaten AdWords. If social really does provide better context for advertising, and advertising within the world's prevailing s…

The vulnerability of their business model was always obvious. What I don't understand, is why Google never attempted to enter new markets with different business models.

Here's hoping Google Glass will be successful.

Re: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

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Post by antidoh »

anigbrowl wrote: post #217
fusiongyro wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> [citation needed] Lubujackson's entire point is that we don't know what the consequences will be .

Ignorance is a poor excuse for inaction.

It's one of the best justifications for caution.

Or as Dr. Buckaroo Banzai once said, "Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."

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