How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

Post by jiveturkey » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #182

jiveturkey wrote: post #166

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> Have they also stopped buying real-world credit card usage and correlating it with your other actions? Thank you. This is a really great example of pitchfork-ism. People want to see things that aren't there. Their desire to see those things blinds them to what is actually happening. Google doesn't and never did what you are implying. Yes, they correlate those 2 sets of information. But neither side of the transacti…

> Google is acting as a responsible steward for the information they collect. OK, but that's beside the point. The point is that they collect information about me without my consent. > There are much, much worse actors out there that are far more deserving of the spite that is sent in Google's direction. Let's say this is true. That in no way means that we shouldn't complain about Google as well. I direct my ire at a…

Post by fjabre » Mon, Feb 03, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

titzer wrote: post #103

Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #32

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But that's precisely what makes Google "good at ads." They built the firehose. Own a destination where billions of people go everyday, find a way to measure their intent, serve my information to them. That = fantastic at ads.

After all this time watchin me, everything I ever asked it, all the ads I never clicked on, all the videos it watched me watch, all my emails it read, heck even after I worked for the dang company for nearly ten years, Google does not understand a very basic, essential thing about me. I hate advertising, damn it! I am sick of looking at it, I am sick of it looking at me. I am sick of hearing about how advertising is…