Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised

Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by andrewla on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:47AM (#16521350)

> By late 2016, Google executives clearly started becoming disenfranchised by the slow pace ...

I assume they mean "disenchanted" -- this sentence makes no sense as written.

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by rdiddly on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:42PM (#16522770)

There's another malapropism further down too - so-and-so trying to bring financial constraint (restraint) to Alphabet.

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by empanadada on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:02PM (#16524880)

Yeah, I'm a bit befuddled as to how a journalist can miss these.

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by empanadada on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:01PM (#16524872)

It bugged me a lot too that there are a lot of sloppy editorial errors that were somehow not picked up by the journalist, nor the copy editors, and the editor(s) in chief before publishing a headline story like this. It reminded me of how far we've slipped in journalism quality :/

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by samfriedman on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:12PM (#16522501)

Maybe the expansion pace was tied as an incentive to their corporate voting power?

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