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Re:The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here? by teddyh on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:33PM (#35747957)
It’s getting closer to the point where we call the entire current “web” a Google-specific network, Google Chrome is renamed a “Google” browser instead of a web browser, and we re-make a new interlinked network which does not require one specific company’s product to use. (Never mind an advertisement company.)

The “Google” network and sites can be kept on as a necessary evil proprietary service, like Facebook is for many, and also LinkedIn.

(re-post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33210846)

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Re:The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here? by pjmlp on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:38AM (#35751706)
I keep saying that Google's plans is to bring ChromeOS everywhere, and the folks shipping Electron apps are doing nothing short than helping Google achieve that goal.
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Re:The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here? by mprime1 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:49AM (#35753395)
I guess my parents were way ahead on this. Already 10 years ago they couldn’t tell the difference between ‘Google’, ‘Internet’, and ‘Browser’
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Re:The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here? by evilspammer on Saturday April 29, 2023 @11:40AM (#35753970)
That was intentional
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Re:The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here? by paulryanrogers on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:17PM (#35754920)
Why would people pretend to not understand the distinction? Free tech support?

Or is the comment missing `/s`?

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Re:The Modern WWW, Or: Where Do We Want to Go from Here? by evilspammer on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:38PM (#35756921)
No, but my brevity was unclear. The general population was taught to consider Google to be the Internet (not even just the web.) A couple of examples:

- Chrome obscuring the full URL in the address bar, which makes people use Google Search as if it were the address bar.

- Gmail being so popular that people assume `@gmail.com` is a suffix for all email addresses. You might tell a cashier your email address to sign up for discounts. When you say `[email protected]` they might end up typing `[email protected]` (this is, of course, an example.)

- Web search as a generic trademark "Google it" which most people now take for granted.

When people don't type in URLs but instead "google" everything by query, it's no surprise people conflate these different systems. My point in essence is that people who confuse Google/Web/Internet are just laypeople, not ignorami; they've been subject to a deliberate campaign by Google to make them think that.

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