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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by icebraining on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:08PM (#14157944)
Is "social contract" code for "agreement I wish existed"? Because it's only used in occasions where no such agreement actually exists.

Some may have expected Google to remain just a discovery tool. That doesn't mean Google owed them to do so.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by marcosdumay on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:34PM (#14158214)
It's code for "agreement that everybody thought existed, despite not being written."

I don't think this one social contract actually existed.

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Re:Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also dama... by jpttsn on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:16PM (#14160411)
It might not be everybody.
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