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Comment by kodablah | Hacker News Reader

Mainstream media story about web company? Check. Nothing new? Check. Negative? Check. Of course Yelp participated...but Yelp angle aside, CBS is just following the news cycle patterns of their brethren. I'm mentioning this a lot these days, but feels like watching cattle being herded (albeit willingly).

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There is a prevailing "tech can do no wrong" attitude in the tech community, and it absolutely needs to be challenged hard.

> There is a prevailing "tech can do no wrong" attitude in the tech community

Is there? I see the opposite in communities including the one we're on. The anti-big-web-company torches seem brightest within compared to the more accepting yet non-ignorant outside.

I think it's not quite "tech can do no wrong", but "all problems can be solved with tech" is definitely prevalent. I guess it's because we're all tech guys here and "if you only have a hammer...".

Yeah, that's a better way of putting it. Way too many people in tech are completely blinded to its limitations and inherent problems.

But you need to use valid examples which the Yelp one is not. Yelp is terrible so not high on the search results like it should be.

But then do a product search and Amazon a top result returned even though Amazon banned any company on their market place from selling a bunch of Google products.

It is just Yelp sour grapes. If going to accuse Google think you might use a valid example.

I don't think the vast majority of 60 minutes viewers would have been aware about any of the details mentioned in this piece. Not everybody follows Google anti-trust chatter.

It gives banks a break.

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