“To be salutatorian at Princeton means you're likely to be a writer of damn fine English.”
He was raised in NYC apparently. However, based on what I read (NY Mag?) the inventor was likely someone from UK or Ireland. It's possible that he used a few British English to hide his tracks
Its reckless, up-for-anything approach seems to be working. Its stock price is now $909.18, up 50% over the last 52 weeks, and the company’s market cap is $301 billion. Its year-over-year quarterly revenue growth exceeds 30%, which is pretty remarkable for company of its size and age.
(warning: I'm not a Google fan in the Larry Page as CEO era and that has hellbanned /slowbanned me from here. Who cares. Oh well)
His entire premise is based on Google growing by 30% a year and that's done by over-monetizing https://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/01... search and (IMHO) using search to force sites to advertise by limiting their free traffic with that purpose. Google Search seem to work to increase Adwords revenue, something many people believe in the post Larry Page world. (Still IMO) this will backfire, I read that many people do not know that they clicked on ads, they thought they were organic results. 95% or so of Google's revue is still thanks to ads.
Also Google is doing all it can to not send users to the best answer, but to ads and to a Google site. I see YouTube videos all over search, Google Places, images and other Google services. Google has become over1ly aggressive with ads and penalizing sites, in part to give themselves some runway to try other things, no one questions Larry when things are growing by 25%-30%.
As for the stock price, Apple was supposed to go to $1000 too, sometimes the fall is just as dramatic.
Bing is "good enough" for most people, that's why Microsoft is trying to muddy the Google brand. That's major risk too, if you do not trust Google results, they can go downhill quite fast.
Don't you think Microsoft changed the world?
Don't you think Apple changed the world?
Don't you think Facebook changed the world?
Don't you think Skype changed the world?
Don't you think Napster changed the world?
Don't you think [] changed the world?
Map products did exist before Google and so did translation tools. Google search was much better than others but search did exist and similar-enough-to-google search tech exists today.
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.
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.
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.
Both Google and Microsoft are loaded so they can afford lawyers. Even if it goes to trial, my guess is that there are no real /seriou$ damages so the downside is very limited. Upside is attracting attention or the public, regulators and maybe giving Google a bad eye.
"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.
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:
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
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
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 ;)
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.
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
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?
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?
He was raised in NYC apparently. However, based on what I read (NY Mag?) the inventor was likely someone from UK or Ireland. It's possible that he used a few British English to hide his tracks