> it has become fashionable to shit on Google for the tiniest of things
A potent element of Silicon Valley’s filter bubble is casting complaints against highly profitable, breathtakingly damaging behaviour as trivial.
A potent element of Silicon Valley’s filter bubble is casting complaints against highly profitable, breathtakingly damaging behaviour as trivial.
This seems typically hyperbolic. What are examples of Google's "breathtakingly damaging behavior"?
It's easy to put the target on Google and ad-words and SEO but literally no one has ever scaled payment for internet content.
The countless people in India, Brazil etc who make livelihoods out of producing content make it out of Youtube ads, not Patreon.
I find roughly the same amount of useful information now as 20 years ago, buried by the content-mill spam from the “countless people” you mention.
I’d argue peak content may have been 2002 to 2007 or so. The original content mills (HuffPo 2005; Buzzfeed 2006) even had mostly useful content while honing in on the viral content form.
There’s likely more substance now than then, but the signal to noise ratio is so much worse you’d have a better chance of finding the needle in the haystack then.
I’d like to imagine people with something to say can and do still self-publish. Perhaps a reason posts about personal blogs are so popular here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
There’s also the project to build a government logged and censored search engine to get back into China.
https://thinkprogress.org/google-dragonfly-china-censorship-...
I’m not a proponent of wage-fixing, but I wouldn’t call the damage breathtaking.
Google allegedly was planning to re-enter the Chinese market, but Yahoo and Microsoft currently operate search engines there that comply with Chinese government regulation. Where is the outrage?