Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
by shadowgovt on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:38PM
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> As such, there is some (misplaced) trust involved when people use IA, Google or other intermediaries
That's the unfortunate reality of trust as a currency... On average, people are way more likely to trust Google, a household name, than Gemini, a three-year-old brand-new protocol with its own mystery set of new and exciting not-yet-discovered security issues.
Google does mis-crawl all the time (in fact, they have a whole division dedicated to confirming whether sites aren't detecting their crawler and actively lying to them; sites that do get penalized in search results). But it's Google, so people believe they have a vested interest in getting it right. There's no such guarantees in people's minds for data coming over Gemini protocol; it hasn't been earned yet.
That's the unfortunate reality of trust as a currency... On average, people are way more likely to trust Google, a household name, than Gemini, a three-year-old brand-new protocol with its own mystery set of new and exciting not-yet-discovered security issues.
Google does mis-crawl all the time (in fact, they have a whole division dedicated to confirming whether sites aren't detecting their crawler and actively lying to them; sites that do get penalized in search results). But it's Google, so people believe they have a vested interest in getting it right. There's no such guarantees in people's minds for data coming over Gemini protocol; it hasn't been earned yet.