Is Google Turning too Personal?

Apparently Google has decided to completely overhaul its search engine app on smart phones by adding a new personalized feed. The feed consists of links about hobbies, sports, news; I'm starting to find this a bit too similar to social media.

This new Google offering is called "Google Feed" and works just like Facebook's "News Feed". Although Google denies copying the Facebook feature, it sure does feel as if Google is starting to use Facebook's feature against them.



“This feed is really about your interests … It’s not really about what your friends are interested in,” Ben Gomes, a Google vice president for engineering, said in a briefing with reporters.

Typical updates might include a link to a website with tips about an upcoming vacation spot, or a link to a page about cycling or another hobby, the company said.

Facebook and Google are jockeying for attention online and by extension, for advertising revenue based on those eyeballs. The two Silicon Valley companies are expected to take in some 50 percent of overall online ad spending in 2018, according to research firm eMarketer.

I don't think I'm necessarily the biggest fan of Google's new feature. Even more so, I'd like my search engines to do exactly that and nothing else.



In addition to putting Google Feed on mobile apps, the company is looking at attaching it to web browsers in some form, Shashi Thakur, a second Google vice president for engineering, said during the briefing.

What do you monkeys think of this? I know Google's previous social media project failed rather spectacularly, however, it looks as if they are taking a more under the table approach this time. Do you guys like the new features Google is starting to put in? What do you think of Google essentially creating identical features to those of Facebook?

 
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I can already imagine some people's Google Interest Page:

1: Magic Johnson says Lonzo Balls summer league performance is a sign of things to come. (ESPN) 2: DOW Jones Down by 4 points, but Investors look optimistic in the new quarter. (WSJ) 2: How to get your penis to grow 12 inches in 3 days? CLICK HERE NOW. (obscure porn virus site) 3: New content available at (Pornhub) 4: Click here to watch, "john Wick 2" (illegal torrent site) 5: How does a drug test work? Find out here. (WebMD) 6: Have you read this thread, "Currently pretending to be gay to get an internship at Goldman Sachs." (WSO)

"A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself."
 

It has nothing to do with bringing you more relevant searches and more to do with keeping you insulated in your own little world to keep people happy.

Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays Life is hard, it's even harder when you're stupid - John Wayne
 

They already had this it was called Google Now, they have just changed it a little and renamed it. Google is famous for renaming their products. Nexus -> Pixel, Android Market -> Google Play, Google -> Alphabet.

I've had Android phones for years and don't even know what the apps I use every day are called anymore. I'm pretty sure the 'News' app changed to Google News, then to like Google Play Newsstand and now just Play Newsstand.

Really confusing, but it allows them to have a press release for a new product that is just a refresh of what they already had.

 

I think some people would like to have their personalized feeds. For me, I don't like there to be an omniscient presence intruding on my privacy. It really depends on the person.

 

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As recent as a year ago I couldn't dress my way out of a wet paper bag. The last year or so I've spent a lot of time reading fashion blogs and exploring fashion on websites and in-person. Took me 6 months--or thereabouts--to really start understanding men's fashion, but from there I've been consistently complimented about my clothing style; however, with the compliments come criticisms from people (usually the worst dressed) who don't like when I take a "fashion risk." For me, I'd prefer to dress myself. With that said, American men are such abysmal dressers that I'm open-minded to anything--even a bizarre app like this one--that might help reverse the trend of American males dressing poorly.

As an aside, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates that for some people no amount of money can buy class.

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Since we're talking fashion in this thread, can I just put in a plug for Bonobos? I am absolutely blown away by this company. I lost going on 55 lbs in the last 2-3 years and have re-stocked my wardrobe, half which is now filled with Bonobos clothing. My God, this company is amazing. The designs, the material, the fit. Within the "normal range" there is probably not a single body type that their clothes aren't cut to fit. The free shipping and free returns take the risk out of buying the clothes. The customer service--online and in the retail stores--is otherworldly. The endless selection almost makes it too hard to decide what to buy. I've addictively shopped for clothes nearly non-stop for a year and Bonobos blows the competition out of the water.

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Mez, seems like a stretch as sky net was an AI software defense system that controlled all of the domestic missle/military capacity and then took control and became self aware (T2 was on last week) after the humans tried to turn it off. Its not like Google has relationship with the government and/or military (unless you consider Google Earth to be dangerous, which some do).

Anyway the development of live search through Google and Bing is certainly pretty impressive

 
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Have you watched American Psycho? That is what finance firms expect to hire and usually do hire...

As long as you do not ACTUALLY kill anyone you should be ok bro.

But in American Psycho Bateman actually did kill people?
 

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