I’ve come to the conclusion that blaming a company for being evil or greedy is pointless because companies do not have ears to hear nor brains to think or feel with (as they are social constructs and nothing more). Therefore, when the Google search engine sucks, it’s because the developers who work at Google are incompetent. When the new Battlefield game launched and was a mess, it was because the developers who worked on it had no idea what they were doing.
Yeah… Cant provide an answer why probably ads. I had very good search terms and it should be the first hit but it just resulted in crap. Currently using duckduckgo and i got the first link that i was searching for correctly. Not looking back anymore.
Google needs to present growing profit for their shareholder. But ad revenue can only grow if you are alle to sell new ads. But there are not any new ideas for ads (like adWord etc) therefore they go down the road of „more ads“ to keep growing. What they needed was a new idea to offer another ad-concept that user liked and companies would pay for. But that did not happen. Goggle basically stopped innovating.
As I understand it the fundamental problem is that capital gains (via the increase of share value) is taxed less than income (via dividends). So shareholders want companies whose share values increase rather than companies that pay dividends, which is why there's the "need" for companies to always eternally grow.
If those taxes were more balanced then there'd be more of a niche for companies that get "big enough" and then just sit at that size steadily turning a nice profit year after year to give to their shareholders.
Musk has always been this way but was never really in the public eye so people only knew him as the mega rich dude that made futuristic stuff. The fame went to his head and now he won’t shut the hell up and his mouth has got him in a lot of trouble.
Did it all happen overnight? Was there a main trigger event or was it a gradual thing?
Most people point to Musk’s tweet calling a rescue diver who saved several children from a flooded cave a “pedo” for turning down his submarine idea. The idea was dumb and calling the guy who just rescued the lives of several children a “pedo” was incredibly bad taste. It was the first inkling that Musk might not be a Tony Stark styled billionaire genius and might just be a rich asshole.
What, exactly happened to twitter after his takeover
Firstly, Musk was forced to purchase Twitter or face a massive fine for stock market manipulation. I don’t think he ever actually wanted to purchase Twitter, but Musk has a habit of thinking the rules don’t apply to him because he has money.
After the purchase went through he essentially became the King of Twitter and made so many terrible decisions I can’t be bothered to list them all here. Just know that he once tweeted that he was walking around Twitter HQ and randomly unplugging servers to see what would happen and also got into arguments over Twitter about how Twitter’s systems work…with Twitter’s lead engineers…and then fired them for disagreeing with him…even though he was wrong. Oh he also said posting hate speech was fine.
is reddit truly a by-the-book carbon copy of his decisions with API changes?
In an interview, the Reddit CEO has stated that he’s using Musk’s Twitter decisions as a model for how to run Reddit. Which is terrible considering Twitter’s value has plummeted by tens of billions of dollars since Musk took over and has gotten in trouble with major advertisers as well as government organizations for being filled with hate speech, misinformation, and propaganda.
On the note of purchasing Twitter, he made a formal offer and entered into a purchase contract with the company. He tried to back out when the closing date got close, and Twitter had to sue him to complete the contract after all the damage he had done during the buying process.
He also waived his right to do due diligence, which fucked him when he was trying to avoid proceeding with the buyout claiming Twitter has inflated number of users.
Seconded; something funky today.
Had multiple searches today that either produced no results (just the little guy fishing), or just links to junk sites that contain massive word lists and nothing else. Bing came through; usually it is best for video and image searches, but at least it got me going today.
I hate that bing (and dependent sites like DDG) will not let you exclude results; if they would address that, they would be a more serious search competitor imo; days like today would make them compelling.
Do a search on mobile and you need to scroll through an ENTIRE SCREEN full of ads (4-5) to get to the first result. And even that might be SEO’d. That’s the current sad state of affairs.
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