Daily Archives: 2024-04-23

The man who killed Google Search

Source: OSNews

Article note: Apparently the rot tractably rooted in 2019. Managed, incredibly, by the same individual who destroyed Yahoo's search business.

These emails — which I encourage you to look up — tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money. This is what I mean when I talk about the Rot Economy — the illogical, product-destroying mindset that turns the products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company’s intentions to get the service you want.

↫ Edward Zitron

Quite the read.

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Internet Archive in Court: There’s More to Copyright Than Financial Incentives

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I absolutely agree with the IA position, but copyright has been converted to such an exploitation machine that I suspect the prevailing interpretation has forgotten that it's supposed to support the public interest.
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