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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by Mauricio_ on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:14PM (#21623816)
Small pet peeve: why do some people write GOOG, AMZN, etc instead of Google and Amazon when the context has nothing to do with the stock market?
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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by stev0lution on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:16PM (#21624499)
I'm guessing to easily refer to the parent company (not sure if these collections are still called companies, english is not my native language). Instead of GOOG one could probably use Alphabet but differentiating between Facebook and FACEBOOK might be a bit confusing and for Amazon that might just be to be consistent with the rest of the article.
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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by BlueTemplar on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:37PM (#21623964)
EL GOOG!
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