My guess at what happened at Google. Stupid tech guys high up in the hierarchy with too much power that overrides what the marketing people are saying. One of the most amateurish things you can do is thinking that the data from product A is relevant for product B.
Who is going to replace Google for us?
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Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#62in any reasonable society, these problems would be absolute cause for public intervention in the industry, possibly even as far as a publicly owned search engine. but somewhere along the way, corporatism has wormed its way into everything. the left, the right, academia, media, everything. and the message they've left is:
criticise corporations all you want, but don't you dare suggest an alternative
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#63The fallacy of youth is that one of extremes. Things are never as bad as they seem. Likewise they're never really as good as they seem. The latter I think explains a lot of nostalgia and holding onto the first "past" we lived through. At the very least it's easy to view that as our baseline. What's "normal", if you will. I say this because as hard as can be to imagine how something like Google will cease to be domina…
What on earth makes you think the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Astors aren't part of the ruling class?
Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#64I should try to keep track of how often I use search engines. Because it certainly feels like I use them less and less. I more or less know where to go for what I am looking for these days. At the same time I get less and less interesting/useful results from Google.
Usually when I want to use a search engine it is to find quality products in an area I know nothing about. However, Google has become useless for this, as the results are flooded with "top 10" lists that are seemingly auto-generated and full of affiliate links to garbage on Amazon.
Neva tends to surface better results on these kinds of things, but I'm currently trying Kagi, which groups all the "top n" posts into a section instead of polluting the entire results with them, which is nice.
More and more I'm just giving up, going to a store I have a reasonable amount of trust in, because they care about their reputation, and pick something off the shelf... trusting their buyers did some work. It's a lot faster and easier and avoids a lot of the paradox of choice issues.
Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#65I stopped using Gmail and Facebook about three years ago I stopped using Google a bit later (without any good alternative, Bing and DDG are almost as bad) But I still used Youtube a lot, I found interesting content there, and the algorithm mostly managed to keep me interested, even if many of the suggestions were crap. But for some reason it suddenly changed a few days ago, the suggestions are all crap now. Nothing o…
Same, YouTube recently started promoting a lot more low quality videos somewhat in the same genre as what I like. It also consistantly hides videos from channel I am subscribed on. It upsets me so much.
Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#66The fallacy of youth is that one of extremes. Things are never as bad as they seem. Likewise they're never really as good as they seem. The latter I think explains a lot of nostalgia and holding onto the first "past" we lived through. At the very least it's easy to view that as our baseline. What's "normal", if you will. I say this because as hard as can be to imagine how something like Google will cease to be domina…
This is true to some extent, but also not a given.
A stable society/economy works like a Monopoly game, after a few rounds the distribution of wealth becomes rigid.
Perturbations are needed to trigger wealth redistribution.
This is why we need revolutions, pandemics, wars and technological innovations to reset the game.
Big money hates innovation because it is always associated with risk, and usually, for mega corps, innovating means killing the golden goose.
The problem, in my opinion, is that there is an end-game to everything, including technology, we're not there yet, hopefully.
Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#67Apple will
like Maps?
While I still use Google Maps to look up businesses, I have long preferred Apple Maps for turn-by-turn navigation in the car. The timing of the queues is much better. Google often left me driving with no idea what my next move was until the last minute. Apple Maps tells you right after you make a turn what you need to do next, so you can prepare. It's much more relaxing for me to know what's going on.
Apple Maps is also great for transit, where it supports it. In Tokyo (several years ago) it would tell me how much money to put on the ticket for the trip I was taking, which would have been pretty confusing otherwise. Not sure if Google has made updates, but at the time I don't believe they had this.
Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?
#68My guess at what happened at Google. Stupid tech guys high up in the hierarchy with too much power that overrides what the marketing people are saying. One of the most amateurish things you can do is thinking that the data from product A is relevant for product B.
Another bad source of ideas is sometimes business people without ethics (or just plain short term thinking), who don't understand or care about the technology, and override the people who do care and/or understand how things work.
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#69regarding search engines, i find andisearch.com as better option for some cases (working as a software engineer)
>better option for some cases
Can you tell us more about the kind of problems for which you receive better search results via andisearch.com?
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#70I stopped reading after the second paragraph. The author just started complaining about Breitbart and Epoch Times being in the news recommendations
I'm not saying I endorse those news companies. It's just like... I thought this was going to be about google search or something that actually matters