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Re: Google bad, Yahoo good
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| Ted Zlatanov 2007-11-26, 7:13 pm |
| On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:53:34 -0800 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
RLS> If I recall, Google withdrew that API about six months ago, replacing with a
RLS> page-embedded search result API that ensures that their ads will also show up
RLS> in the right place. Yech.
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RLS> So much for Google "doing no evil". Yahoo for the win.
Withdrawing a public API is an inconvenience to its users but hardly
qualifies as "evil" in my opinion. Let's be fair.
Ted
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| Randal L. Schwartz 2007-11-26, 7:13 pm |
| >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
Ted> Withdrawing a public API is an inconvenience to its users but hardly
Ted> qualifies as "evil" in my opinion. Let's be fair.
I disagree. The closest equivalent API (the client-side embedded javascript)
burdens all results with google ads. So, this seems to be a change only to
line the pocketbooks of the stockholders. Still convinced it's not evil?
print "Just another Perl hacker,"; # the original
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| xhoster@gmail.com 2007-11-26, 7:13 pm |
| merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
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> Ted> Withdrawing a public API is an inconvenience to its users but hardly
> Ted> qualifies as "evil" in my opinion. Let's be fair.
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> I disagree. The closest equivalent API (the client-side embedded
> javascript) burdens all results with google ads. So, this seems to be a
> change only to line the pocketbooks of the stockholders. Still convinced
> it's not evil?
Yes. Not being a charity is not the same thing as being evil.
Xho
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