Re:The web starts on page four
by pdonis on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:20AM
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> Nobody can serve everyone well.
I never claimed that anyone could. You are attacking a straw man.
You are completely ignoring the actual point I made, which is that Google is a business, and every business serves the needs of those who pay it money, and in Google's case that is not its users, it's advertisers. So serving user needs has to be a by-product.
> Why isn't the simpler, more charitable answer that they are just serving the majority of their large userbase, or whoever in that user base they care about?
Why isn't the simpler, more obvious answer the one I gave, that Google, like every business, serves its paying customers first, and users are not paying customers?
You seem to be going to extraordinary lengths to ignore this obvious fact.
I never claimed that anyone could. You are attacking a straw man.
You are completely ignoring the actual point I made, which is that Google is a business, and every business serves the needs of those who pay it money, and in Google's case that is not its users, it's advertisers. So serving user needs has to be a by-product.
> Why isn't the simpler, more charitable answer that they are just serving the majority of their large userbase, or whoever in that user base they care about?
Why isn't the simpler, more obvious answer the one I gave, that Google, like every business, serves its paying customers first, and users are not paying customers?
You seem to be going to extraordinary lengths to ignore this obvious fact.