On: On the increasing uselessness of Google

[jimfl]

You are not the customer. You are the product. Google works just fine.

[code_duck → jimfl]

Yes, but I'll only remain in their inventory insofar as their secondary product, the one I use, remains the best.

[sleight42 → jimfl]

Voted up.

Crucial point: Google is not consumer-centric. Google is advertiser-centric platform in the guise of consumer-centric one.

Google's value to the advertiser is purely a side effet of the number of consumer eyeballs that it can call its own.