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Re:How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006) on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @03:19AM (#6962577)

And no, fraud does not account for most of Google's income. Google is a public company and you are more than welcome to review those figures yourself.

Fraud: saying from every top of the mountain that we serve results best for the users, we serve unbiased results, you can't buy a top rank on Google etc etc etc and then showing barely distinguishable (from content) ads on top and in many case showing almost all ads. That's fraud to me, regardless of the fact that we have a toothless FTC.

What % of users know a Google ad vs unbiased content? What % of users know that Google Products is 100% ads and in many cases it cost them a fortune?

If Google wanted users to know ads or bought rank from unbiased ones they'd find the way. They can just undo what they did from around 2007 until now.

Re:How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006) on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @02:42AM (#6962520)

"I work on Google Fiber. You give us money, we give you an Internet connection."

Real revolutionary, I tell you. No doubt Page and Sergey are having wet dreams by dreaming of the extra data that they get by spying on even more things. Because that's what every Google products ends up being, a snooping device to help Google sell more expensive ads. There's no pride or code of honor at Google, just more ad clicks than the last quarter.

Maybe a put a microphone on each of our rooms to help us? Will that come before or after the brain chip? http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/23260/freaky-future-o...

By the way, is what I said true (fraud accounts for most of Google's income)?

Re:How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (2006) on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @02:26AM (#6962489)

>> At the same time, I feel like I'm doing impactful work, with some very smart people.

Ah, you must be one of the stars getting people to click on ads, even more. No matter how you spin it, you make money by what can rightfully be characterized as fraud (1,2,3), or confusing ads with unbiased content(if there's still a thing like unbiased content at Google) while ripping your users off. But whatever makes you feel better

1. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/18/for-google-it-pays-to... 2. http://www.seobook.com/consumer-ad-awareness-search-results 3. http://www.afr.com/p/technology/google_top_product_search_re...