Tuesday, March 15, 2022

It is not a search engine, it's a marketing data collection box

Lawsuit claims Google's Order Online button directs customers away from restaurants' sites

Stop thinking that Google is a search engine that will assist you in finding anything on the web. It may have been that for a brief, shining second way back in its infancy.  At a time when all search engines were struggling to figure out how to make money. 

Once Google realized the money is not in giving people good search results they stopped doing that and switched to collecting and selling data on you -- without your permission. 

Today, that is all they do and they do it well.

Someday far in the future people will say, "Remember when it was legal to steal and collect personal data without a users permission?"

"Scary times. You could never get away with that today."

I can't wait for that future to happen right now.

Remember: Google has no interest in giving you good search results. They just don't care and since you don't seem to either everyone loses.

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