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Comment by carlosjobim

9 months ago

Half of this forum would be out of a job if it wasn't for Google, but still they down vote my comment and demand government regulation. They have no clue what they're in for. While Google has it flaws – big flaws – at least for the most they give anybody a chance to compete in the results ranking. A government regulated search engine or web portal won't be anything like that.

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Kbelicius  9 months ago

> Half of this forum would be out of a job if it wasn't for Google

This is similar to the Great man theory. If there wasn't for google there would be something else. Maybe something similar maybe something totally different. The idea that half of us would be sitting on our ass doing nothing if it weren't for google is just nonsense.

  • carlosjobim  9 months ago

    > If there wasn't for google there would be something else.

    I absolutely agree with that, maybe even something better than Google. And hackers would want that regulated and/or shut down as well.

    What I'm saying is that the current economy for IT would never exist if it wasn't for the free and unregulated Internet.

troupo  9 months ago

> Half of this forum would be out of a job if it wasn't for Google

Hahaha wat.

> still they down vote my comment and demand government regulation. They have no clue what they're in for.

Oh, we do have a clue. We have close to two centuries [1] of data to draw from. Corporations and big companies will always go for the worst possible things and are only reigned in when the government steps in. Without fail.

> at least for the most they give anybody a chance to compete in the results ranking.

No, they don't. And they haven't done this for a very long time now.

[1] Well, more. Government regulations are as old as governments, but let's take the last two centuries as something resembling more modern capitalism.

  • carlosjobim  9 months ago

    > No, they don't. And they haven't done this for a very long time now.

    They do. I've launched several projects in the past years from nothing, with no backlinks, that are ranking high on Google and making good money. Just by adding the pages to their index in the box they provide. That's just the truth, no matter how strongly you feel for your ideology.