TheKarateKid

This is Google we're talking about. They could very easily conquer the SEO experts the same way they basically eliminated spam and most web browser exploits.

This might be the case for news sites which show limited content until you sign into a paywall, but I don't recall the biggest offenders which show NO relevant content at all (LinkedIn and Facebook) saying anything.

At least Quora would show you a small something. Facebook and LinkedIn literally show no content except a login page.

Google could fix this by making the algorithm take into account searches that often end with "reddit", thus applying more weight to Reddit results to similar searches where the user didn't include Reddit in it. Clearly it's an indicator that those are the better results.

Take StackOverflow for example. Almost any programmer will find a SO result as the top result and it's usually exactly what you're looking for. Since there's no money to be made by companies writing blog posts on debugging a compiler error, Google's algorithm works as intended.

Question is: Why hasn't Google done anything about this? It's the organic results that are terrible, so they're not losing ad revenue by placing these garbage sites at the top. Perhaps its to intentionally make better websites pay for ads to get better placement? But those won't be the ones to ever pay to begin with...

Just as bad as the auto-generated pages are company blog pages whose SEO rigged post pretends to give "help" for a problem where the main solution is of course, using their product.

Can we also talk about how Google allows top organic results to LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook which literally present you with a LOGIN page before you see anything related to your search?

Absolute worst UX ever, yet they allow it because it's their SV buddies.

Doesn't surprise me. We had a few Dell AIO's in our office and whenever the CPU was under high usage for more than 15 minutes the motherboard would start malfunctioning. USB ports would stop working, built-in screen would flicker or short out entirely, etc. As soon as the CPU usage let up, all the issues went away and it would work normally again even without a reboot. Same behavior, multiple identical models in our office doing the same thing. Clearly a design defect/flaw.

Dell's solution? Replace almost every part under warranty under numerous repairs. As expected, issue still persisted and support had no explanation. We had no luck trying to escalate the issue as a design flaw. We decided to cut our losses and just order new PCs that weren't AIO's since they wouldn't be thermally pushing the limits.

They're playing the long game. Apple wants market usage to build bargaining power with the banks. They saw how the original Google Wallet was blocked from adoption because of control by the carriers and banks. Remember ISIS Mobile Wallet? (That name aged terribly..)

We saw how it took 10+ years and a dominating market position for Apple to show their claws with controlling 3rd parties with the App Store. Make no doubt that once a significant portion of the market uses Apple hardware or services for transactions, that they will want control and a cut of the transaction.

Notice how they say: partner-enabled iOS app

This means Apple has to endorse each 3rd party, and they remain under Apple's control just like app developers.

My comment, nor the parent comment, ever said origination.

Gee I don't know.. maybe going 100 years back with the Spanish Flu? West Nile virus, Zika virus, Ebola.. all those are okay but saying Wuhan virus is considered racist.

I said employee time as in it being a dev team effort not a single developer.

It probably would've cost Rockstar at least $100k in employee time to have one of their teams find, debug, and fix the issue.

The extra time can now be spent playing the game instead of waiting, increasing revenue.

So relatively speaking, it's a low payout for a huge company like Rockstar to give on their game grossing billions.

Exactly. We could end up like cable television where we pay for the service and STILL get shown ads and in the Internet's case, tracked.

Full details, and info on a fork or using an old safe version here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

Just got the notification on Chrome that it was disabled due to malware.

Full info and forked version info here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...

From the NYT article [1]:

>Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.

>Facebook executives outlined the company’s options to Mark Zuckerberg...: hire hundreds more engineers and spend billions of dollars to compete against Google; exit the business; or do the deal.

It's one of many things FB and G did together. Even more are listed in the antitrust lawsuit against Google.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo...

Actually, G+ was full force UNTIL there was an agreement for Google to back off in exchange for Facebook not competing with certain ads products.

All the dirty laundry is coming out in the antitrust suits.

There are components in Windows that still exist from the NT days, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of these were still there.

They could've easily suspended new signups instead, and/or limited transactions to only those with settled cash.

They didn't announce anything to anyone until it went into effect, despite programming their systems in advance for the changes.

Every explanation they've provided has a million holes in it.

The fact that the group was previously suspended by Facebook for being a "dangerous organization" makes this removal even more suspect. It was suspended for two different reasons.

Or restricted accounts whose cash transfers didn't settle yet.

Well like OP said, then just restrict people whose cash didn't settle yet or require 100% margins like other brokers did.

Even if I believed this excuse, then RH is still greedy for signing up users they don't have the finances to support. They could've closed signups.

Ok, so they can do what Merrill and other brokers did and require you to have 100% margin restrictions to ensure they get their money from you.

And let's not even begin talking about how they halted only buying and not selling. Or that they delisted the entire stock from their platform so you couldn't even search it.

The volatility was going on for days, yet they said nothing. They programmed their platform to block trading in advance, yet gave no prior announcement or warning.

A well-known investor with integrity publicly mentioned personal issues with the co-founders' integrity in the past.

What's old is new again. Anyone remember Trillian?

AOL, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo messenger all in one client!

It seems that this is more of an issue of how the W3C chooses to operate, rather than Google taking a certain position.

Trademark law goes by category. Elastic uses theirs for a software product as well as a service, whereas Amazon is using it for their cloud services (not as a standalone software product). This is why Apple Corps (music, Beatles) and Apple Computer Inc. were allowed to coexist.

This situation is a very fine line between the technicalities that the trademark law was written for. Amazon knows this, and they have the money to set legal precedent in court to have it their way. And so stomping on Elastic's trademark is the route they chose to further benefit from that company's reputation.

Or use cloud services from companies which historically haven't played politics, many of which are ISPs as well: Verizon, ATT, IBM, etc.

Don't forget that Apple reversed course when Jobs realized that Apple was losing control with unfavorable OS licensing deals circa 1997 [1]. It's clear that since then, exclusivity and absolute control has been their mantra.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone#Jobs_ends_the_...

Please re-write your comment in the same vein, except this time about Pre World War 2 Germany and Hitler, and let me know if you have the balls to hit the submit button.