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OGinparadiseon Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

So what? People have biases, I never claimed to be unbiased and we're just sharing our opinions. I do not get paid by anyone for what I say. What I said about Google is heretic to some, only because they have this notion of an angelic Google. They'd believe it for Apple, most other companies and especially for Facebook and Microsoft.

Anyway, bed time is almost here.

OGinparadiseon Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_tu,_Brute%3F

Google claimed a lot of things but generally the theme was "We're nice, ethical...trust us with monopoly power, we'll be considerate...blah blah" and people believed it, helping them get even more market share. IMO they seriously abused that power especially in the past 2-3 years, only to fatten their wallet http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/10/google... at the expense of websites that provide the content for Google Search. It's not merely academic, well meaning small businesses lost everything they had, and then some.

If I /we were stupid to believe that, and if "Google doesn't owe you any traffic," fine but we sure have the right to voice out our opinions.

OGinparadiseon Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

Looking at your posts, it appears your posts has more hate than reason when it comes to Google.

That's an opinion, but I no longer fall for Google's kool aid...and yes, there's some boomerang from having drunk it earlier on.

FYI: I don't work for Google. So its not just google employees that disagree with you.

The good thing is that I am not looking to get noticed, get funded or being hired here so I truly say what's in my mind. I am 100% sure that many [insert corp name here] employees disagree with me on virtually every topic.

OGinparadiseon Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, 'more than happy' to include ads

Microsoft has nothing to lose in this, every mention of this story in the press helps them. They are probably hoping for a lawsuit

OGinparadiseon Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

So, either your post is considered bad, deserving downvotes, or there is a conspiracy. I'd go for the simple explanation.

Me too. Considering the flagging of bad-for-Google stories it makes sense.

That's what you meant for the "simple explanation" right?

OGinparadiseon Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

"They managed to squish Netscape like a little bug"

How many "little bugs" has Google squished with their Search? Granted they didn't get sued by DOJ because they were smarter (Google's Lobbying Budget: $25 Million During FTC Probe - http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/01/04/google-spend-25-mill... ) than Microsoft but with a 70% online market share they can destroy virtually any business or niche they want to.

All the extra stuff you see on Google Search now was done by other companies and most were destroyed during Search updates for having "spammy and shallow content." If you ask Google why the clutter? The answer is something like "Because users love that content...blah blah" But users hated it when others did it and Google didn't make money on it. Of course.

OGinparadiseon Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store

My bet is on Google employees. I get a good dozen or so downvotes from them when I post something negative about Google. Usually it happens in a short period of time, as if someone gave them marching orders.

I have also noticed that Googlers aren't fans of saying "Disclaimer: I work for Google" but go straight into praising Google's Product A and Feature B as if they had no bias.

"Google is good and Microsoft is evil" is getting a little tiring and IMO is no longer true. Google will do almost anything for a quick buck:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/13/google-keny... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190478740457652... http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/05/technology/google_verizon_ne...

Just imagine what may hide in their black box algorithms as Google claims fairness an unbiased results.

OGinparadiseon Send money with Gmail

Google looks after Google and that's it. Exhibit A is search and how much more money Google makes after major updates.

People are in denial but some truth is coming out little by little.

OGinparadiseon Google Talk Chat History can no longer be turned off by default

I would assume that Google Now-type products work better when they have as much information as possible, and making all chats save by default all the time would be a good way to get much more information from people.

IRS, FBI, your divorce lawyer, former business partner's lawyer and the local police department also work better...when they have everything you've done, where you've been (hello Android!)searched for and said all stored and cataloged. If it's stored they'll get it, otherwise there's nothing to get. If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be worried and all. /s

OGinparadiseon The New Google Maps

Google has Search to promote their stuff, even if it's inferior. Put theirs on top, meaning other reviews are much harder to find (people click on top links). That's how many people installed Chrome for example

OGinparadiseon The New Google Maps

Good point, maybe Apple will let users embed them in web pages and wave any fees for x years. Google and Bing charge after a certain number of free API requests so Apple should offer it for free for a while. It's not like they are hurting for cash ;)

OGinparadiseon Larry Page posts about his voice

It's possible that for now he wants to hear the story only from people with his exact condition and symptoms. Let's face it, he's probably panicking (and for a good reason) so he wants to find out what he can do, if anything.

No doubt he'll open his wallet and for research that will help others that still haven't had the vocal cord issue.

OGinparadiseon Mt. Gox Dwolla account frozen by DHS

Money Laundering is a serious risk banks face, you only need to look at HSBC's recent debacles to see why.

It's not a risk, it's a business opportunity. At least it was for HSBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18866018 . Joe Schmo from small Town, MN would have been a felon by now for doing the same with $10K. The fact that HSBC, other banks (NY Mellon Bank iirc too) and their execs got away with a "cost of doing business fine" shows what's wrong with the system

OGinparadiseon Https URLs posted in private Skype chats visited by Microsoft

Apparently it says so on their privacy page: http://www.skype.com/en/legal/privacy/ Skype may use automated scanning within Instant Messages and SMS to (a) identify suspected spam and/or (b) identify URLs that have been previously flagged as spam, fraud, or phishing links. In limited instances, Skype may capture and manually review instant messages or SMS in connection with Spam prevention efforts. Skype may, in its sole discretion, block or prevent delivery of suspected Spam, and remove suspicious links from messages.

If phishing and malware was spread thanks to skype, what would people say?

OGinparadiseon Is Tesla making green cars or status symbols for the 1%?

The 1% argument is a great one. Personally I would never buy a Tesla as my first or second car (range, price and convenience issues) but then they don't need to sell or appeal to everyone. A few thousand cars a quarter and they are golden as a company, who cares if I (or 300 million others) don't like them?

OGinparadiseon Apple using moving letters as captcha

I hope not, these are refreshingly easy for humans, compared to the rest.

Maybe an Apple engineer can chime in

OGinparadiseon U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

You are going back how many years?

Is the post-Mubarak Egypt any better for the average Egyptian? You can argue that US should mind it's business, but otherwise do not assume that the alternatives are perfect.

Using that logic we could reason that yes, Saddam was horrible, but Iraq without him could be much worst.

OGinparadiseon U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

Short answer: As bad as US is, you should see the other countries.

If a US cope beats you, you most likely hit the lottery, in other countries if they didn't beat you, you hit the lottery. The rest of your examples are oversimplifications. What if US didn't exist and tyrants didn't fear anyone? How many local if not world wars would we have?

As for oil, US lost trillions fighting Iraq and Afghan war, not sure what you mean. But yeah, generally speaking US wants countries to drill as much as possible to have cheaper and plentiful oil.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

Google cannot "read" content so in essence it's the size of the brand that matters, unless they suppress it manually via search quality raters.

Brands escape major updates, something we saw especially after Panda. As soon as some major sites were hit, they changed the algorithm. Google does not algorithmically punish certain sites for link buying and other shenanigans. I suspect that after a site reaches a certain level of score (not calling it PR) it's golden. So buying 123456789 comment spam links for "Matt Cutts" on fiver will not do much, but 500 links to mymomscookies.tld will cause them to go to page 10, or dead in the water.

Google doesn't seem to care because small sites don't give them pr problems (Audi and Macys would) and small sites will be forced to advertise, if they want any traffic. Notice the perverse inventive? Cut the free traffic and increase adwords' business.

OGinparadiseon U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

Wow! Besides the new level of audacity, whatever happened to "Never picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel" ?

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

You don't understand. Google has made huge sites immune to this, and small sites that suffer are labeled as "spam, low quality and shallow" sites by Matt Cutts & Co.

Until recently Google was winning the propaganda war, now not so sure. On web forums people are openly talking about search manipulation to increase advertising via Adwords and ad clicks. http://searchengineland.com/google-matt-cutts-penguin-update...

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

Do you have anything to back that claim up?

Yeah, lots of things. Things I mentioned in the comment.

You're on hn every time there's a Google story talking about how they're killing smaller sites, acting monopolistic, violating anti-trust regulations or whatever, what is your motivation?

T-R-U-T-H is a great motivator.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

Immunity? There's no immunity (supposedly) inside the Google search algorithm

Almost certain that there is. After a certain internal Google score (?) it appears like no update will penalize you with things like 70% traffic drop out of the blue. Big brands are largely not effected by Google's many updates and even when they buy links etc they are forgiven very fast. Regular sites on the other hand are told generic nonsense as they lose visitors update after update.

OGinparadiseon Weev placed in solitary confinement for tweeting from prison

Sure, but that doesn't excuse the thief. In a 'just' world the thief would go to jail and AT&T would suffer fines, private lawsuits. The people responsible for the lack of security would also be fired.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

For the record, I'm out. Been out since a few months after Panda, now I just do a thing here and there for others.

>>If your worried about this update then you haven't been doing seo right

I love this statement, heard it right after Panda when the "good SEOs" were bashing the panda hit sites...and then their own sites were destroyed too. As horrible as it may sound, I actually felt good.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

His name probably has immunity, just as most large brands do. Small/er sites are fried. Deep fried.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

Your post has nothing to do with the previous message or point, you're just switching arguments. Most e-commerce businesses cannot scale /downscale every 50% + or - organic search traffic changes.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

and this is a much larger negative for Google imo.

Eventually. Doesn't mean that Google isn't doing it believing they're controlling the negative effects or doing it "just a bit" this time and a bit more that quarter.

Diversity on Google is largely gone on transactional search, big brands rule both the ads and organic search. This is responsible, IMO, for Google at almost $900/share but will eventually ruin Google. They got too greedy and people will eventually bypass them and go directly to the brands Google promoted for short term cash.

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

That makes sense, if virtually every update didn't promote the likes of Amazon, eBay, and Google properties. Small businesses are toast and getting toaster by the update

OGinparadiseon What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

You are naive, even if disavow works, Google runs this update every six months are so. Do you realize what a traffic drop does to a business with payroll to meet?