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Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works"

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On 2014-03-14, Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:35:53 +0000, Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
> wrote:
>
>>On 14/03/14 10:56, Roger Blake wrote:
>>> On 2014-03-14, Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> wrote:
>>>> Bye bye google.
>>>
>>> And good riddance.
>>>
>>
>>You know of a better search engine? Because I'd like to try it.
>
>  TBH, with google being the way it is, you might as well use Bing. I
> suspect MS only decided they were in with a chance once google had
> broken their promise of "Do no evil" so long ago that even the
> consumers were noticing how shitty their search results had become
> from the pollution of crass commercialism actively being encouraged by
> google.

At one time I could search for, say, a printer manual and get what I wanted
pretty quickly.  Then one day I tried and most of the results were prices
for the piece of hardware concerned, no manuals in sight.

I, my employer or a client had already got the hardware concerned so prices
were totally useless as search results.

It was about that time a hosting ISP started sending me Google vouchers
for 50-100 bucks at a time.  What was I going to do with those when all
I was running was a local resident's association site?

Google had moved into the "pick and shovel" business.

-- 
Paul Sture

While Twitter was down I got a new job, got married and learned how to
play the bagpipes                                    -- @flamingowurst

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[CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-13 09:08 +0000
  Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-13 22:51 -0700
    Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-14 09:56 +0000
      Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-14 10:56 +0000
        Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-14 11:35 +0000
          Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Morten Nygaard Åsnes <mnaasnes@gmail.com> - 2014-03-14 13:41 +0100
            Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-14 16:55 +0000
              Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-14 13:20 -0700
          Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 16:51 +0000
            Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 05:34 +0100
              Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" greymausg <maus@mail.com> - 2014-03-16 10:55 +0000
                Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 19:40 +0100
          Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-15 20:24 +0000
        Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-16 05:16 +0100
          Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-17 16:54 -0700
      Re: [CM] "Encrypt everything" vs "advertising is how it works" Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-03-14 16:38 +0000

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