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The basic idea that Google's ranking algorithm is optimized to serve Google's interests first and those of its customers second is the only possible way for Google's officers to fulfill their legal obligations to the shareholders they serve.
In the latter case, I tend to delete the post. My first response is always to edit the post to express my ideas more clearly, my second is to consider if the comment is doing little more than inflaming passions for no benefit to the community. Others believe part of the reason Costco is so successful is their employee culture.Ī long time ago, I started treating downvotes as a critique of my writing. Simple example: some shareholders might think it'd be better to slash salaries at Costco to boost the bottom line.
There is no singular objective qualification on what would lead to the maximization of shareholder value, it's an opinion that varies from one shareholder to the next as to what they think is "best" for the company. In fact it's no more complicated than this: if some random shareholder is upset, they can stir the pot accordingly, and the waves they'll make is almost always in proportion to the shares they can vote directly or indirectly. Buyer beware, is basically what they stapled to the prospectus. So they absolutely do not have any duty what-so-ever to maximize anything. In the case of Google, the triangle of Page / Brin / Schmidt basically control Google outright, regardless of the other shareholders, due to their voting shares. The constantly repeated 'duty to maximize shareholder value' line is nothing more than a myth. There is also no SEC - or any other - regulation stipulating this as the prime directive for corporate officers. They were very clear about that when they went public. It's clearly not a fiduciary duty of their executives to maximize shareholder value. You should read Google's corporate filings.
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A Windows user would never know that a free quick private and powerful alternative is just one VM away. This is why the Google ad network laden "" is returned before the ad free and purely scientific "" from a US search for "weather."įor real fun, search for "pdf to html" and "pdf to html linux" to compare the degree to which Google promotes solutions that collect data on users.
Google's definition of "best search results" is related to their bottom line, and the goal is to be as intrusive as possible without driving searches away.
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Crapware sites appear so consistently at the top of searches for software that excludes the term "linux" that coincidence is many sigma less likely than intent.Ĭonsidering that what most Windows crapware installers do is mercilessly track users for the purposes of marketing and that Google's main business is tracking users mercilessly for the purpose of marketing, it is hard to see how this is some random event. These sites thrive solely because Google ranks them at the top. Why Mozilla aren't screaming about it constantly is more of a mystery to me.Ībsofuckinglutely. There isn't really much downside for them in making Windows as horrendously unsafe for non-experts to use as possible.
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Putting my conspiracy hat on it seems like there isn't much motivation for Google to sort out the problem because every new malware loaded PC is another potential convert to a locked down cloud based platform like ChromeOS. Maybe that will motivate them to sort this out but I'm not hopeful. I've even noticed searches for Chrome sometimes show links to (what appear to be) malware sites now. I've mentioned it a few times on here before, even directly to Google employees and they don't seem to give a shit at all.
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If you are wondering why searching for "firefox" leads people to install malware the main reason is that most of the ads Google shows for that term, and which appear at the very top of the results, take you to sites with malware downloads. That is the danger to most users, running Windows.ĮDIT: For the user whom penalized my comment score, why?
User got very frustrated and hung up when having him read the uninstall programs installed list. In the end, I tried to have user uninstall the bad-firefox, and attempt to install the good, but the softonic installer installs a ton of crap everywhere. However, this client comes from another area in which we are not allowed to use the remote support tool. Normally, I would use a remote support tool and just do the cleaning for the user. Mainly Conduit and others.Įvidently, user "searched" for firefox rather than follow my directions to type in the address bar. Turns out, the user's computer was infested with spyware and garbageware. And the user is not a tech savvy user (as in, cannot read words on the screen). Lets choose an example, of which I have had my hands in with my tech support job.įirst, the user was using IE.
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The problem is much worse than this contrived 'I cant download PuTTY securely'.