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amf12 commented on Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy   searchengineland.com/goog... · Posted by u/taubek
TekMol · a year ago
Strange that Google still relies so heavily on site authority.

Shouldn't they have a good grasp on where people actually go on the web, which pages they use, share, bookmark etc?

I'm surprised they don't base their rankings on that.

amf12 · a year ago
That would also boost click baits.
amf12 commented on YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=dqTYg... · Posted by u/harporoeder
azemetre · a year ago
I think removing section 230 protections from these companies would be sufficient enough. You can’t have it both ways on being an editor of content (the algorithms) then claim you aren’t a publisher.
amf12 · a year ago
Do you know what would happen after that? Every company, blog, etc would ban more and more content.
amf12 commented on Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]   abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f92... · Posted by u/neel8986
nikhizzle · a year ago
A possible endgame of this quest for growth is just mixing unlabeled ads directly in with search content. Effectively pay for ranking with some quality filter. I'm pretty sure it won't come to that, but worse things have happened.
amf12 commented on Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]   abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f92... · Posted by u/neel8986
baron816 · a year ago
I think that most of the traffic being stolen away is going to be for low value searches. I (and probably almost everyone else) use Google when I already know what I want, ie I’m trying to get to a company’s website to buy a particular thing, but don’t know their url name.

I’m not going to use an LLM to shop for car insurance or look for hotels.

amf12 · a year ago
LLM responses have also started embedding ads [1], or LLM responses are themselves ads [2]

- [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/17ky9sg/first_time... - [2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/reddit-sneaky-ai-spa...

amf12 commented on Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app   zerosheets.com/... · Posted by u/joaovcoliveira
sfink · a year ago
My next user script project idea would require something like this. It's for my own use, but I have to fill out grade sheets using an incredibly painful web UI. The data would be far more easily entered into a spreadsheet. (That's exactly what they used to use, but in order to make things "easier" the school implemented a horrific parody of an ultra basic CRUD web app...) So I want to make a user script that reads from a spreadsheet to populate the painful-to-use web form.

I haven't started yet because (1) I still haven't finished writing up my last user script experience blog post, and (2) I'm terrified of the auth nightmare. It might be easier or harder in the user script context—I am in the context of a web page, so maybe that means I can do a normal oauth flow from there or something?

amf12 · a year ago
Have you checked out Apps Script?
amf12 commented on Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta   ec.europa.eu/commission/p... · Posted by u/impish9208
woolion · a year ago
How many other good engineers at Google are working on anti-competitive practice by pushing Google as default browser, providing a worse service on non-Chromium based browsers (like slowing YouTube for Firefox), etc? [Microsoft Edge does worse]

How many other good engineers at Google are working on ethically dubious practices, like tracking users that are in explicit do-not-track mode through browser fingerprinting?

How many other good engineers at Google are working on <insert any other terrible practices>?

Maybe paying a few engineers to clean up their reputation is not enough? Maybe you just picked a bad role and are looking for the wrong culprits?

amf12 · a year ago
Do you have a source for any of these?
amf12 commented on Gemini on the iPhone would be AI's mainstream moment   cnet.com/tech/mobile/goog... · Posted by u/geox
Jensson · a year ago
> ChatGPT is absolutely not mainstream

Majority of teens have heard of it and 13% admit using it to cheat on homework, probably much more used it to cheat than admits to it and even more than that used it for any reason. Also note how the rate hoes up a lot in older kids, they probably have more homework so more pressed to cheat.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/16/about-1-i...

amf12 · a year ago
> Majority of teens have heard of it and 13% admit using it

Your source says "Roughly one-in-five teenagers *who have heard of ChatGPT* say they have used it".

This is certainly not "majority" of teens.

amf12 commented on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly   nytimes.com/2024/03/21/te... · Posted by u/jcfrei
overstay8930 · a year ago
> There is a plethora of evidence that this is not the case.

Do you have actual evidence for this claim? Because it's pretty widely accepted that the App Store has higher standards and quality, and you just cited a single case.

amf12 commented on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly   nytimes.com/2024/03/21/te... · Posted by u/jcfrei
ben7799 · a year ago
One thing I don't get about this is say DOJ wins and significantly weakens Apple.

They'll basically hand the market to foreign companies. Seems odd.

Google does not need an assist here, last I checked they are doing great, and could fix a lot of the things iPhone users don't like about Android if they wanted to.

amf12 · a year ago
> and could fix a lot of the things iPhone users don't like about Android if they wanted to.

What are those? And even if they were fixed, how would people move if Apple makes it so difficult to leave the ecosystem?

u/amf12

KarmaCake day1219April 15, 2018View Original