Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by zozbot234 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @03:18PM (#24001890)

> In addition to spam, we're talking about stuff like newsletters, promotions, notifications, updates, mailing lists, etc.

Much of that flow could be replaced by RSS-based notifications and the like. E-mail might be justified when you want your stuff to be auto-archived, but perhaps any message you would delete immediately after skimming it should just not be sent in the first place.

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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by thephyber on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:52PM (#24002726)

A side effect of Moore's Law is that as computing gets more powerful, the things humans do with computing can afford to get sloppier.

Bill Gates famously said "640K is more memory than anyone will ever need on a computer" in the 1980s. We could probably do most of what modern computers do with far less than 32GB of RAM, but that assumes that our software is much more optimized for compact runtime than they are.

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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by dkersten on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:02AM (#24027636)

We need the 32GB so that slack can use 30 of them.

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Re:Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case by CydeWeys on Friday July 31, 2020 @02:30PM (#24011982)

Yeah, it could, in theory, but it hasn't been, and I doubt it will. So the volume of email continues to be what it is, and thus, is much larger than the volume of Google searches. You've mode-switched from descriptivist to proscriptivist.

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