Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
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#2Related: “How can we tame the tech giants now that they control society’s infrastructure?”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/06/how-ca...
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#4I cannot comprehend how the developed world gave up the POI landscape to one American company. Without a fight or second thought.
Re: Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
#5Related: “How can we tame the tech giants now that they control society’s infrastructure?” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/06/how-ca...
Slightly off topic.
(I left Facebook et al., threw out all Echos, try to minimize Google)
People treat this as something new. The new is the global. In the past the local newspaper had total control over your business. It might have been easier to deal with the local newspaper than with Google though (from my experience deeling with Google as a small business). On the other hand in a lot of small cities (in Germany), there is a clique of people deciding everything about a city including the journalist from the newspaper, hard to get something changed for you business (At least that was my experience in some startups that were not part of the clique).
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#6I cannot comprehend how the developed world gave up the POI landscape to one American company. Without a fight or second thought.
Didn’t Google put a lot of the POI data together themselves? And aren’t there lots of competitors? And nothing but money stopping another player from entering the market?
Re: Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
#7I cannot comprehend how the developed world gave up the POI landscape to one American company. Without a fight or second thought.
Didn’t Google put a lot of the POI data together themselves? And aren’t there lots of competitors? And nothing but money stopping another player from entering the market?
When Apple Maps got released and everbody made fun of how bad it was, it was revealed that Google Maps had something like 6000 people working on it for years and years, funded through Alphabet corporation's search monopoly and ad revenue.
Not the maps ad revenue, that's a pittance. The search revenue.
And note that a company that was the world's biggest (or nearly so) at the time failed to catch up, and has still failed, despite also dipping deep into an unrelated (near-monopolistic) source of funding. They apparently "only" had 1000 staff.
There aren't lots of competitors, and nobody has a hope in the world of catching up with Google Maps and their illegal use of their monopoly to dominate other markets. Even other companies illegally abusing their own near-monopoly position have failed!
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#8Google donated too much money to the politicians for anything to change.
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#9This is inexcusably disgusting. Reminds me of the bullshit Amazon feeds their employees about unions.
Re: Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn’t Google put a lot of the POI data together themselves? And aren’t there lots of competitors? And nothing but money stopping another player from entering the market?
When Apple Maps got released and everbody made fun of how bad it was, it was revealed that Google Maps had something like 6000 people working on it for years and years, funded through Alphabet corporation's search monopoly and ad revenue. Not the maps ad revenue, that's a pittance. The search revenue. And note that a company that was the world's biggest (or nearly so) at the time failed to catch up, and has still fai…
I don't understand this take.
Google Maps is one of the world's greatest modern achievements. It's an incredible resource, and it's free. I have no idea what the actual numbers are but if you told me it collectively saved hundreds of billions of dollars a year i wouldn't be surprised. Not to mention the cultural value of being able to teleport virtually anywhere in the world and see the streets, visit places etc.
Isn't it a good thing that Google, for all their ills, put their money to work on this?
Isn't this one of those capitalism success stories so many people here rave about?