Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless
by bitcrusher on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:25AM
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Aren't we "paying" them by 'being the product'? That's the faustian bargin, I believe. You let me use your tool, I let you profile the hell out of me...
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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless
by reeses on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:57AM
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You have a good point. I suspect, as sources of profiling data, Reader, Alerts, Wave, Buzz, etc. were not producing at the level of search and mail. Plus is to be seen, but it's already descending below the level of discourse on Facebook. (https://plus.google.com/+AstronomyPictureOfTheDay/posts – I guess that's the problem with integrating it with a bunch of cheap smartphones)