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Google’s top search result is Google
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#312Google is removing the concept of urls and domains. Apps do this but so does not showing part of the URL in the URL bar and not showing the URL as it is in the result pages without the breadcrumb type redesign. They also realized they make more money when they show a favicon of websites to obfuscate the fact that they have to legally label Ads as ads. The ads txt is directly proportional to the size of the fav icon in serps. Google is evil.
Let’s not forget how google reader and blogger were killed. The greater idea is to not remember anything and to go directly to google each time, making them the sole source of content.
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Google Earth was originally developed at Intrinsic Graphics in the late 1990s. October 2004, Google acquired Keyhole. Google maps started February 8, 2005. It would have been easy to offer kml links and "force" the users into Google Earth. Before it was tinkered into a steaming pile of shit Keyhole was a truly fantastic product, with a lovely community, arguably the greatest thing since web browsers (with picasa & he…
> It would have been easy to offer kml links and "force" the users into Google Earth. How so?
It was such superior experience. If the user has it on his box the map link can simply point at the google earth client.
Take route planning for example. It use to be that you could fly the route in google earth. A line on a paper like map with a bunch of dots is useful for finding a shorter or more preferable route but after you've made up your mind flying over the road from A to B allows you to drive or cycle without any map.
If the application is installed the search results can include tours. (people made countless illustrated tours that kept breaking with each api update until there were no tours left)
Google could probably embed google earth into web pages if the will was there.
We will see where https://earth.google.com/web/ ends up. For now it loads as if booting an OS but its quite smooth after that.
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No, I wouldn't do the same. Maximize profits? Yes, sacrifice core values and even social stability to acheive the goal? Nope. Be deceptive, do things against people's will? Nope.
Can you mention the worst or most deceptive thing they've done?
It's a long list, hard to pick the worst. A few things come to mind like how they read your email and used it for ads (but then said sorry and stopped), log you into google on chrome if you login to any google service, shadow tracking, recording conversations and keeping it long term, location history tracking without user consent, secretly turning on wifi to track users, collecting payment and form history and exposing it acrosss devices, so much more. Those are just crimes against individuals, the things they do with theit work with governments!
Be warned, you didn't care now when they abuse their power against others ,don't expect anyone left to carr when they use it against you.
Re: Google’s top search result is Google
#315I don't recall Google ever promising to be a "pure" web search engine, just indexing all the pages. Quite the opposite, they said the goal was to organize and present information. The goal has always been the most relevant information given the query. Early on, that pretty much always meant a web page. More and more, they already know the answer and can present it with a better UX for the user. Why should they be req…
Similarly to Amazon replacing popular products with their own, Google is doing the same with search results.
I'm not sure it's really the same. Someone asks Google "how far is it from Portland to Austin", and before they got 10 blue links, and now they get a number. That's not the same as "amazon, send me some Coke" and them sending Amazon brand cola drink.
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Their info boxes are all scraped from other sites, would they still be able to legally scrape sites and display them like that without giving any links to actually follow?
the data that google shows from websites is provided by websites as structured markup, websites started providing this with the expectation that it would provide better ranking. Nowadays, however, google could probably just render the same thing thorugh nlp without any additional hints from the sourced pages
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Competitors have a hard time getting off the ground because the dominant player is promoting its own products. Classic monopoly. Competition won't be good if nobody uses them. Google maps might be a good example, MapQuest and Terraserver used to be better for navigation and satellite photos. Did they fail because of business reasons or self promotion? Hard to know, but Google pulled the same shit as MS got antitrust…
> ...promoting its own products. Classic monopoly How is promoting equivalent to classic monopoly ? They are not removing competitors from search results. They are ranking based on relevance and apparently users are happy with their own widgets coming up on top.
they're promoting their own products when they have over 80% of search eyeballs