Google to Tell You What to Do : Your Problems are Now Solved

14 years ago

that is a little frightening lol. it's scary enough for me to google my address and see it loud and proud right there in full color.
however, we all know how profitable getting the #1 site in big google is potenitally. i wouldn't give up on them quite yet

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DogScout

14 years ago

Next product is the 'Google Chip'. Implanted surgically in your right rear quadrant of your left frontal lobe.

"You WANT Eddie's Gourmet Slow Churned Mint Chip Ice Cream NOW!"

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rosetrees

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

"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." [/indent]

Well, I'd rather it made the tea then tell me when to make it.

That sounds like one of those seriously annoying features that somehow seemed like a good idea when the inventor thought of it, but drives users mad and is either turned off or causes mass defection. I don't think most people have lost the ability to think for themselves - yet.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Given some of the search results you get these days with Google, Google telling you what to do with your life will be about as accurate as using a Magic 8 Ball to make life decisions.

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Michael Mayo

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Given some of the search results you get these days with Google, Google telling you what to do with your life will be about as accurate as using a Magic 8 Ball to make life decisions.

Well then, guess I no longer need Google since I have one of these,

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tpw

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Given some of the search results you get these days with Google, Google telling you what to do with your life will be about as accurate as using a Magic 8 Ball to make life decisions.

Yep, Google is starting to suffer from over-inflated egos and under-performing search results...

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deloriagod

14 years ago

Originally Posted by rosetrees

That sounds like one of those seriously annoying features that somehow seemed like a good idea when the inventor thought of it, but drives users mad and is either turned off or causes mass defection.

Makes me think of User Access Control on the newer version of Windows. That's the most annoying thing Microsoft has managed to do and if computers didn't normally come with the latest operating system installed, I wouldn't have touched Vista or Win 7.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Typical Google arrogance. All I want from Google is relevant results in it's search engine. Period.

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Mohammad Afaq 14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Typical Google arrogance. All I want from Google is relevant results in it's search engine. Period.

And they just don't seem to understand do they lol
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- seoweb2000 14 years ago
  
  When a platform provides the chance to make a ton of money there will always be a horde of people that will try ( some successfully) game it that is what is happening with Google for a lot of high paying search terms.
  
  If Google dont do something about this then more people will start using the next great platform, Facebook.
  
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Charles Harper 14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Typical Google arrogance. All I want from Google is relevant results in it's search engine. Period.

Suzanne,

I don't think it matters any more what you and I want...

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MichaelHiles

14 years ago

Funny how the rest of my offline life doesn't seem to give much of a $h%& about Eric Schmidt or Google.

Their relevance exists only in the space we allow it.

You know what I did this morning? I created a referral generation program for a business client that doesn't even involve the internet.

This client? I didn't obtain them from the internet either.

Their paycheck to me?

Won't involve the internet.

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JayXtreme

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

Funny how the rest of my offline life doesn't seem to give much of a %& about Eric Schmidt or Google.

Their relevance exists only in the space we allow it.

+1 on this.

This Google "issue" only exists for those that allow it. My business grows with or without Google. Period.

You know what I did this morning? I created a referral generation program for a business client that doesn't even involve the internet.

This client? I didn't obtain them from the internet either.

Their paycheck to me?

Won't involve the internet.

Old School...

I love it. The internet is my place, but you can't deny the still very solid power of regular business.

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The Rogue Economist 14 years ago

Oh great, it's the Microsoft Paperclip on steroids...

Search: Breast Cancer

"Hi! I can see that you want to look at boobies!"

This could get interesting...
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Banned 14 years ago

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Rashell 14 years ago

My local news reported a home was robbed after the homeowner posted on Twitter, they are leaving town on vacation.

That happened a few months back with someone on FB. The person who stole from them was an old High School "friend". Forget if it was local or national.

Either way there's a big difference between a person you once hung out with and a dear friend you can trust. They don't deserve to know the same details about your life.

Then there was the people who went to buy a TV from an ad they saw on CraigsList. Got to the house cash in hand & were stolen from at gunpoint.
They probably tweeted about it when they got home.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

According to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, Google is trying to acquire so much information about each person that it will be in a position to tell people what to do.

The end of the need for the Warrior Forum?

Or will Google be telling people to visit the Warrior Forum?

"We're trying to figure out what the future of search is," Mr Schmidt said. "One idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf without you needing to type.

"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."

As I think about this, I think this is a response to Bing.

Bing is the "Answer Engine".

Google doesn't have the answers, so now they want to tell you the questions.

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

That is scary arrogance.

Most people who rail against how much Google invades their privacy will race straight to Google whenever they contemplate hiring or dating someone new.

Being keenly aware of how much they can learn about a person from Google, they will exploit it in any and all ways to make better decisions about people.

And, secretly, they wish they could get more and better information about other people from Google.

They'd like their own information completely protected... but they'd still like unrestricted access to everyone else's information.

Not that they'll say this out loud. They'll act shocked, and complain about how horrible Google is, and pontificate about some basic right to privacy that everyone deserves.

Privacy is a polite fiction. You pretend you don't know things about your neighbours. The day you happen to look across the street and see Greg in his bedroom, posing for the mirror in ladies' underwear, you don't tell anyone and you don't ask him about it. You just pretend you didn't see it. You act as though nothing has happened, because it is none of your business.

And you don't actively go peeking in Greg's windows to see whether he's wearing ladies' underwear, either.

So if you search for "men who wear ladies' underwear," and Greg's personal blog happens to be #2 for the term on Google, you don't email your friends or Greg about it. You pretend you don't know that. (It must be a different Greg.) And you don't go actively searching for pictures of Greg in ladies' underwear on the internet, either. It is none of your business, so you just plain don't go there.

But if it IS your business... perhaps because Greg has suggested the two of you meet somewhere and both wear ladies' underwear, and you'd like to make sure Greg isn't playing some kind of prank on you... then you should be able to go find out, shouldn't you?

Whether something is your business isn't a question for Google or anyone else to answer. It's entirely up to you, and always has been.

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Vogin 14 years ago

I call this the "Google Wipe My Ass" syndrome. As long as there is no such service in the air, we're safe.
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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Privacy is a polite fiction. You pretend you don't know things about your neighbours. The day you happen to look across the street and see Greg in his bedroom, posing for the mirror in ladies' underwear, you don't tell anyone and you don't ask him about it. You just pretend you didn't see it. You act as though nothing has happened, because it is none of your business.

There is a profound difference between a handful of your neighbors knowing some secret about Greg and his secret being stored in a public database anyone can access.

But if it IS your business... perhaps because Greg has suggested the two of you meet somewhere and both wear ladies' underwear, and you'd like to make sure Greg isn't playing some kind of prank on you... then you should be able to go find out, shouldn't you?

So, do you want some Google or government agent going through people's homes and recording every thing about them? Every book they have read? Every item in their medicine cabinets? Every item in their night stands? Should they also install surveillance cameras in every room of their homes?

How else would you find out this kind of information you "should" be able to find?

Besides, if Greg wants to go somewhere wearing ladies' underwear, I don't need to Google him to figure out my answer is going to be "No thanks."

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MichaelHiles

14 years ago

It's still a pretty simple equasion.

Don't put anything on the internet that you don't want the whole world to know about you.

You're in control of what you post.

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marketguy

14 years ago

is google being arrogant, yes!

however, they know something i agree with and that is:

the general public is made up of morons, that have been taught from an early age not to think for themselves and to believe what they are told.

we could talk about politics and games of that sort, but don't get me started.

google simply knows, that they can get away with this and are even giving notice of what they are about to do.

what will the general public do about this? nothing, is what they will do!

flame me if you dare.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by marketguy

the general public is made up of morons, that have been taught from an early age not to think for themselves and to believe what they are told.

Don't know where you were raised, but many of the people I've met in my life were far from morons.

Are there "morons" ...if you care to characterize people like that ... yes.
Is the "general public" morons? Not in my neck of the woods.

Funny how people who think everyone else is a moron, usually exclude themselves from that segment of the population.

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marketguy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Don't know where you were raised, but many of the people I've met in my life were far from morons.

Are there "morons" ...if you care to characterize people like that ... yes.
Is the "general public" morons? Not in my neck of the woods.

Funny how people who think everyone else is a moron, usually exclude themselves from that segment of the population.

maybe my wording was a little off.

the essence of what i am trying to say is, that the masses do not understand what goes on behind the scenes and nor do they care.
that is because of a lack of education. even "highly educated" people (with exceptions, of course) do not scrutinize the "news", or anything the media has to say, in a consistent manner.

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Fernando Veloso

14 years ago

Whats new?

Mr Schmidt just told the truth: when some people hit 30 years old, they will want to erase all the crap they said/post in social sites etc.

Mr Schmidt said the truth about how Google can perform searches for you and me: type your best search query and see the related options. They're (kind of) doing it right now. In a small scale, but the ideology is there. "don't type, we show you the options".

What Mr Schmidt forgot to say is that somewhere, sometime, Google will be slapped worldwide and many users will drop it. For good.

The cause? I don't know, but I can think of world's biggest lawsuit AND/OR privacy breaches...

We'll see. But truth is, WE love so much stuff Google provides us, and yet we're so damn worried about the future. Not a easy deal.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso

We'll see. But truth is, WE love so much stuff Google provides us, and yet we're so damn worried about the future. Not a easy deal.

And what does Google provide us? A place to find information? A place to find stuff to buy? People managed just fine in the hundreds and thousands of years before Google. They'll probably be fine long after Google is gone as well.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Charles Harper

Suzanne,

I don't think it matters any more what you and I want...

CT

Not necessarily true. Google continually gets into hot water over privacy issues ... like the "accidental" storing of Wii data ... Some government agency is going to knock them down to size sooner or later.

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

And what does Google provide us? A place to find information? A place to find stuff to buy? People managed just fine in the hundreds and thousands of years before Google. They'll probably be fine long after Google is gone as well.

Once upon a time in a Galaxy far away I thought I couldn't live without Alta Vista ... then Yahoo ... same thing with Google.

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

There is a profound difference between a handful of your neighbors knowing some secret about Greg and his secret being stored in a public database anyone can access.

Besides, if Greg wants to go somewhere wearing ladies' underwear, I don't need to Google him to figure out my answer is going to be "No thanks."

uhhh .... mine too

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Rod Cortez

14 years ago

You can use Startpage Search Engine (Startpage.com) when you want to use Google as an SE if you don't want them to collect your "search info". Some more info here: Startpage Protects Your Privacy !

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Steven Carl Kelly

14 years ago

Google needs to be watching over their shoulder, Facebook's search platform is going to have huge advantages over Google's.

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J Bold

14 years ago

Google's so smart it's giving me "spam" (Hawaiian favorite of canned pork) recipes when I check my spam folder on gmail.

Laser targeted, aye?

Yes, I really need Google telling me what to do.

Simple enough to turn off web history if you're logged in, though. Then you shouldn't get personalized search if you don't want it.

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JohnMcCabe

14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

It's still a pretty simple equation.

Don't put anything on the internet that you don't want the whole world to know about you.

You're in control of what you post.

Unfortunately, that's no longer completely true. You are also somewhat at the mercy of others who give no thought to what they post or who it might affect.

Look at the whole Michael Phelps bong incident. Phelps certainly didn't post pictures of him smoking up at a party. Some guy at the party who thought it was cool did.

You just about have to add "don't do anything you don't want on the Internet anywhere some person with a cell phone camera might catch it."

You are in control of what you post. The same is not true of what other people post which may include or affect you.

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Kay King 14 years ago

My local news reported a home was robbed after the homeowner posted on Twitter, they are leaving town on vacation.

I've long thought both Facebook and Twitter were useful mainly for keeping idiots occupied and out of your way....

I'm looking forward to the day when I lounge on a chaise eating chocolate while google runs my business and sends money to paypal who sends it to my bank who pays my bills.

I will then coin the term "internet marketing slug" and get even richer:p
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