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Google to workers: "this is a workplace, not college."
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Remember waaaaaaaaaay back when people had a generally favorable opinion of Google?
The internet used to be really fun. I'd spend a night online and feel fulfilled after. Did some posting, checked out if the sites I like updated, search around randomly for new stuff, check for replies and log off. It was great. Capitalism sucks, especially now that they're on the giving a shit model. Everything seems so micromanaged to the finest point. At least earlier shitheads were more likely to turn a blind eye to people having fun as long as the cash flow was steady. Nothing is fun anymore and there's nobody in power who is happy with thst enough to just not give a shit.
1999? Just barely remember searching for Pokemon and DBZ stuff in the computer lab
Yeah and earlier as well as through the first half of the 2000s. They just had a good search engine, by all reports it was a solid place to work and the branching out they did was having stuff like image searches. Anyone remember the image search game they had for a while? You'd be hooked up randomly online with someone and both get sent the same random image from their image results and would both type in one word descriptors until you got the same one and then you'd move to the next image and there was a time limit and a scoring system for time amount of images completed and a leader board. They used the results to improve keyword accuracy. If you wanna crowd source some data, host a fun game that is hosted on Google so it's not blocked by school computers, it's sorta free lavor but it seems more humane than paying someone a cent per image tag and you'd get better data as well.
I remember when I was a teen, for a while the buzzword tech bros really liked was "gamification", which at the time meant turning something boring into something interesting with a scoring system. Nowadays it's almost exclusively used to make things that should already be fun addictive.
I recall that turn as well. There was always something real suspicious about that term anyway