Wikipedia Sucks!

All the data it collects is the real source of Google’s dominance, making the company’s services ever better at providing users what they want. Through autocomplete and the personalized filtering of search results, Google tries to anticipate your needs, sometimes before you even have them. As Google’s former executive chairman Eric Schmidt once put it, “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”

Twenty years from now, with two more decades of progress, Google will be even more accomplished, perhaps approaching a vision Brin expressed years ago: “The perfect search engine would be like the mind of God.” People are coming to rely on these tools, with their advanced artificial intelligence–based algorithms, not just to know things but to help them think.

The company decided against informing the public because it would lead to “us coming into the spotlight alongside or even instead of Facebook despite having stayed under the radar throughout the Cambridge Analytica scandal,” according to an internal memo. Now Google+, which was already a ghost town largely abandoned or never inhabited by users, has become a massive liability for the company.

Though the practical impact of the breach seems to be negligible, Google played directly into the politically-motivated hands of the lying Google haters, who have already been screaming for Google’s blood and for its executives to be figuratively drawn and quartered.

These kinds of Google communications strategies are giving the evil haters even more ammunition to use for false accusations of political user censorship, they give the EU additional excuses to try fine Google billions extra to enrich EU coffers, and they give massive energy to the forces who want to break up Google into smaller units to be micromanaged for political gain by politicians and those politicians’ minions and toadies.

CrowsNest wrote:My homepage has been Bing ever since I got this device.

It took me six months to even notice I was not "Googling" , but "Binging". Now I know, I cannot think of a single reason to take the two seconds it would take to change my home page.

Maybe these Google lovers need to realise how very little brand identity they have, where it matters.

As for personalised blah blah, I can't be the only person who finds these things easy to spot, and my only reaction is irritation at their arrogant presumption that they are even trying to "anticipate my needs".

Dysklyver wrote:(as long as it looks much the same)

CrowsNest wrote:My homepage has been Bing ever since I got this device.
It took me six months to even notice I was not "Googling" , but "Binging". Now I know, I cannot think of a single reason to take the two seconds it would take to change my home page.