Google and Theory of Mind. ⇒
14 December 2007, mid-afternoon
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
14 December 2007, mid-afternoon
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
man, that post struck me as ridiculous.
Point 1 was sheer nitpicking. Every single person I know who works for google takes pride in their work and certainly certainly doesn’t think of “do no evil” in the literal sense.
Now check out this line from Point 2: “Through the turn of the millennium, hyperlinking on the web was a social, aesthetic, and expressive editorial action”
Talk about glorifying the “good ole days”. His 2nd point is based on some assumption that the internet, pre-google, was some all-positive ultra-expressive link-sharing utopia. “There were no online spammers back then AND I walked to school, in the snow, uphill, both ways.”
And Point 4 implies that Google will has some impossible internal conflict for choosing their content. If google produces “less useful” search results than another search engine, that would be the worst thing google could do for their business. I’m sure their not going to mess with that. Here’s an example of an internal conflicrt: go on google and search for “free email”. Where’s gmail? It’s 7th on the list. There’s 2 advertisers ahead of Google.
by tyler on December 14 2007, 6:45 pm #