re: Frick google, but this is funny

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Frick google

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Because they're constantly improving all of their already excellent products?

Those bastards!

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Really?

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To a certain degree. Fresh out of school you do not know shite about pumps seals compressors bearings etc etc. I practically lived googling and youtubing flowserve this and chesterton that goulds busch and every other equipment manufacturer. Finally when I got the basics down the shite they were trying to teach in a lunch and learn finally started to make sense.

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Eriq Killmonger

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You are incredibly dense.

It's all ball bearings nowadays.






just kidding baw

This is the OT baw, reading comprehension is not a strong suit here

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Google - 20 years
Amazon - 24 years
Apple - 42 years
Microsoft - 43 years

Apple and MSFT are on another level above Amazon and Google. This is one of those you will not believe it if you look at market cap alone, however looking at the ability of taking over a void left by those companies if they vanished.

Walmart could absorb Amazon, Amazon could not absorb Walmart.

MSFT could absorb Google, Google cannot absorb MSFT.

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Eh. Google is literally the standard term for searching for ANYTHING on the internet. Amazon (or rather alexa) is the name brand for in home voice control which is obviously skyrocketing. They're both on kleenex level in terms of brand recognition and owning what they do. And they've started to move into other markets with gusto and success.

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Frick google

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Right. Because I'm sure you dont use any of their services.

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Nope, you exchanged Personal Identity Information (PII) for it. After your ID is stolen, then you'll know if it was worth it or not.

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pipe down nerd

A company that started with the internal motto "Don't be evil." then quietly just stops using it as they quickly become the unrivaled gatekeepers of the entirety of humankind's combined knowledge.....yeah. I'm worried about them./

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This is the most millennial thing I've read in a very long time.

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You beat me to it.

Google does not have enough physical form to be safe. Every single offering they have could be replaced by another company in 3-6 months. That is how quick Google could disappear. Android phones are the only true roadblock. Everything else would have an easier migration path, because data is just data.

Same with Amazon. They are really great at what they do, but can be replaced by Walmart for Retail and Azure for AWS in less than a year. AWS would actually be the harder of the two because of corp contracts.

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Google has made my life tremendously streamlined.

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I am curious what they have done for you? I lived 75% of my life without Google, so I am good still on my own .

I do own a Droid phone, so they are of course part of my life. I try to limit any use of their apps though.

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I could care less if they are selling my search history.

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So you could care less

You really should care, because you have to think a few more years down the line. It has been stated by Industry Experts - a person's search history is the most private thing in the world. We all search for things we would not want our spouse/parents/preacher to know. It is just the curious part of human nature. In the past those inquires would leave no digital record, however we live in an age it stays with us. That should really scare us all.