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Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by erik_seaberg »

Spare_account wrote: post #133
pc86 wrote: post #126

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Strawman garbage aside, Google is a private company (in the sense that it is not owned by the government), and you objectively do not have any right to appear in their search results. If you can make an argument to the contrary that doesn't revolve around "it's not 1776!" I'd love to hear it, but I seriously doubt that it would be in line with any US law. I don't think there's anything "stone age" about not requiring…

While your misunderstanding of the comment may be a genuine mistake, your comment could be considered "straw man garbage" itself. Your tone is condescending and you might want to consider re-phrasing. The post you're replying to is suggesting that removal from Google results _should_ be part of US law. Perhaps the impact of Google is such that there should be legislation regulating Google's behaviour. In the UK we ha…

BT doesn't need to decide which people are important enough to appear on page one. Google earned their position by doing just that—by being dramatically better than an unordered list of all web pages containing your substring.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by oelmekki »

reaperducer wrote: post #216
oelmekki wrote: post #111

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I think you nail it, here: the biggest problem of google is support :) This is something notorious and traversal to all its products.

Which is interesting because the #1 way to improve your product is to listen to your customer complaints. This is Business 101 everywhere except Silicon Valley, which thinks it knows better than everyone else in the world.

Please, no need to be hateful, Intercom and Zendesk are from SF too :)

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by Fnoord »

saalweachter wrote: post #244
coldtea wrote: post #224

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> Would this apply to all of google, or just specific product areas (ie, would you only nationalize Search, or Search & Ads, or something else)? Mostly search. We'll drop the ads. People will be subsidising search already, so no need for ads. > If yes, do tensorflow development now fall under the purview of the UN? No, that Alphabet can keep. > Is Android now a partially closed-source, world-government administered,…

What will be the fate of search "verticals" (Map Search, Product Search, Video Search, ...)? Will UNGoogle have the "one box" answers (eg, music lyrics, weather) which give real information from the search results, or just ten blue links? Will the employment contracts of existing staff (SWEs, SREs, PMs, lawyercats) be transferred to the UN as well? Will employment be maintained on the current terms? Will the UN emplo…

Ungoogle, that's a very inspiring verb. I'll use that to describe the act of getting out of the Google bubble (ie. stop using Google products). Thank you for the inspiration.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by misterhtmlcss »

I just use duckduckgo. I've tried it for years and it just wasn't good enough and then about a month ago I got fed up with Google's data mining again and tried it for like the 5th trial period and I haven't switched back. If you haven't tried duckduckgo for over a year then I suggest you give it a trial again.

I'm running a custom theme to remove the Google search bar from my Android phone, installed Firefox Quantum and set up a Mozilla account, so now everything is gone from Google except my Gmail and that will happen next along with Dropbox too.

If you want Google to be a better organization then you have to vote with your feet. Do that and your voice will eventually mean something, but until then Google won't listen.

Re: Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

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Post by eeeeeeeeeeeee »

caio1982 wrote: post #41
scandox wrote: post #17

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I'd be interested in your rebuttal of this: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/protonmail-isr...

Thanks for that! I really didn't know they had a response to these claims. However it's not hard to see this can just be a PR shield anyway.

You might as well not use the Internet at all.
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