Google is not an "advertising agency", that is a specific thing. What they are is a mainly ad supported medium which is what most internet services are, same as TV/Radio/Newspapers/Mags etc. Airing out philosophical and…
Maybe if you take this post as a singular occurrence but I've noticed many such post in the last week alone.
Is it a Google specific issue though? I mean there is a policy users could read, they have the dashboard, transparency reports, bug trackers, forums, blog posts, the works, probably more than anyone else offers. Also…
Post should be dated with "(2013)" appendage. What's with these endless bouts of Google-hate on HN? seemingly if there isn't anything going on at the moment someone would readily whip something out from the archives…
That is a separate issue.
This has little bearing on the gravity of the ask, the jurisdictional authority of the EU is not unlimited. Besides it's a disproponate legislative move targeting one company, it will in the very least raise questions.
This is political posturing and grandstanding on steroids, whoever bought the EU parliament (evidently Germany publishers) did a good job. They can’t “break up” Google, it’s an American company! it’s not based there.…
Google is not an "advertising agency", that is a specific thing. What they are is a mainly ad supported medium which is what most internet services are, same as TV/Radio/Newspapers/Mags etc. Airing out philosophical and…
Maybe if you take this post as a singular occurrence but I've noticed many such post in the last week alone.
Is it a Google specific issue though? I mean there is a policy users could read, they have the dashboard, transparency reports, bug trackers, forums, blog posts, the works, probably more than anyone else offers. Also…
Post should be dated with "(2013)" appendage. What's with these endless bouts of Google-hate on HN? seemingly if there isn't anything going on at the moment someone would readily whip something out from the archives…
That is a separate issue.
This has little bearing on the gravity of the ask, the jurisdictional authority of the EU is not unlimited. Besides it's a disproponate legislative move targeting one company, it will in the very least raise questions.
This is political posturing and grandstanding on steroids, whoever bought the EU parliament (evidently Germany publishers) did a good job. They can’t “break up” Google, it’s an American company! it’s not based there.…