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A comment on Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts. Parent comment

Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts by dmvdoug on Monday July 03, 2023 @08:59AM (#36572266)
have they ever addressed this in later years? Like, what was their justification for Google becoming the AdMonster it did?
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Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts by liveoneggs on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:42AM (#36586527)
Yes but you can't hear them because they are on yachts
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Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts by dmvdoug on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:44PM (#36606045)
Sounds like a job for the orcas…
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Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts by Quekid5 on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:32PM (#36639133)
Lol, hope springs eternal :).

... but more seriously: Yeah, their reasoning (now) isn't exactly going to be unbiased and/or unblemished by their own experience. They probably have the most extreme survivorship bias ever. (Not their fault, they just do because of whatever factors got them into the position they're in.)

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Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts by Quekid5 on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:54PM (#36639807)
They're now richer than god. Why would they care about anything other than money? Societal rules don't affect them very much at this point.
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