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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Very good. An evil corporation doing evil things to an evil agenda.
I mean, is it evil? Seems like removing results that can't be seen without a login might make sense. Google has plenty of faults but I don't know if this is one of them
Did Pinterest used to require logins to see their images? I remember I used to get annoyed when search results directed me to that site
They absolutely did (do? I never visit it)
If it is just a revenge for Elon not paying fees for the Google hosting, it would be very evil indeed. Of course, from Lemmy point of view, it is just reason to get more popcorn.
I gotta be careful about my sodium intake from all the popcorn.
The details are unclear as to why these links were removed. Opining on Alphabet's morals at this point is premature.
It's not premature because calling Google evil has absolutely nothing to do with this action.
We don't need to make up reasons to call corpos such as Alphabet evil. The fact of the matter is that at this time, nobody even knows if Google lifted a finger to forward the delisting of Tweets. For all we know, it could be entirely on Twitter's end.
Hence, assigning blame to Google for this without understanding their role in it is premature.
It could also be the search algorithm reacting to all the users returning to google after seeing only the login page
Why are you so invested in bootlicking for google? They are precisely one of the mega corporations that fediverse exists to get away from. Peertube and other projects target platforms they own just like lemmy targets reddit and mastodon targets twitter. They are one of many centralised ridiculously oversized evil corps that this entire platform aims to subvert.
No bootlicking detected. The first sentence of my comment actually belies my contempt for them.
Not jumping to conclusions is not bootlicking.
He also said “doing evil things” but I’ve seen no evidence that they have “done” anything. This could be just be the algorithm responding to these tweets no longer being visible without login.
Funny Google's motto is 'don't do evil'
It used to be. They removed that.
Well at least nobody can call them hypocrites.
Remember when Google separated their parent services into a new company called Alphabet? Alphabet's motto isn't 'don't be evil'.