Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets : technology

[-] Landmammals@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Now do Quora.

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[-] Pillarist@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Let Them Fight

[-] Aimhere@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Nice analogy. Only problem, neither of the combatants is Godzilla, so there's no one for us humans to cheer for. It's more like Ghidorah versus another Ghidorah, the latter being nothing but Kevin heads.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait... so google can just do that? Guess Pinterest bought the premium cloud services and never misses a payment. And tips.

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[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago

#BoycottGoogle #BoycottMusk #BoycottBillionaires

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[-] macintosh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

What is his endgame

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[-] Hypx@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.

But on the other hand, this is really starting to look like the death knell of Twitter. It's quickly becoming extremely inconvenient to see any tweets on Twitter now.

[-] Antaeus@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Very good. An evil corporation doing evil things to an evil agenda.

[-] kennydidwhat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

The details are unclear as to why these links were removed. Opining on Alphabet's morals at this point is premature.

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[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago

Funny Google's motto is 'don't do evil'

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[-] nikolqy@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Obviously, this is political and dangerous, and Musk should send a letter to HQ telling them to, well, go to sleep and just not wake up. Google knows exactly what they're doing. We already know Google has blacklisted Truth and Rumble, and other sites it doesn't like, and they're about to do it to Twitter. They didn't do this to Reddit when it went private. Also, if you don't believe me, use Bing and search for Truth and Rumble and everything is correctly indexed, then look at Google, and it doesn't index hardly anything.

I've been saying for a while now that Google is one of the most dangerous companies in the world, and one of the most partisan if anything.

If you think I'm being dramatic, just look at some leaked footage to understand how this company operates. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6162889/Leaked-Google-conference-video-shows-founder-comparing-Trump-voters-extremists.html

I won't even mention their news tab, advertising business, insanely biased search results or anything like that, but google in its entirety is an insanely dangerous company that takes action based on their political beliefs, and because of the scale of Twitter and Google, it's definitely discrimination and shouldn't be tolerated. I'm just happy that Google is getting less popular every day.

[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

Ah, that's gonna sting. Google is still most people's gateway to finding stuff.

[+] traveler01@lemmy.world -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Some years ago most people would say this is positive. Mostly due to the fact that now someone trying to check what you've been saying on Twitter will have a harder time doing that. (Will need to search you actually on Twitter instead of just going to Google).

Also, the Twitter view limits it's just to prevent scraping by third parties. Saves money to Twitter but also ultimately makes life harder on companies who are trying to feed information from Twitter to their AIs. The Twitter Blue subscription it's a good source of revenue for Twitter as well helps them filter out the bad users. Some years ago some people would also find that a good idea. Who remembers the phrase "If it's free YOU'RE THE PRODUCT", well now it isn't completely free right?

One point everyone forgets about is that, Musk bought Twitter as is. He made the company private and suddenly the company started losing money like hell? No. Company before he buying it wasn't sustainable at all hence he needed to fire most of its workforce for it to actually start being sustainable. Twitter as a company was employing a lot of useless people and was burning investor money every month. When investor money stopped going in (Twitter going private) suddenly a liquidity problem appears.

Also don't even get me started on the fact that when Musk took over suddenly many of the issues plaguing Twitter were fixed. For example, Twitter had a bot problem, every post about crypto was plagued with bots trying to get you to invest in their crap. Musk fixed that only in a few weeks and removed most bots from the social network. Why? Well, he doesn't need the user base to look bigger to investors.

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