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I love how you're on a YC Combinator forum criticizing other people about worshipping corporations.

I care about accuracy and quantifiable metrics. I can show screenshots for Bing, DDG, and Google showing all ads. OK what's the point? What percentage of results on the first page for each are ads. More accurate and easier to compare.

By the way, if you want to attack Google you should attack them for things that actually matter, like their egregious Play Store fees and anti competitiveness by misleading buyers in their ad bidding market, tax evasive, anti-trust, and adherence to censorship in various countries.


do you realize how disgusting it is to be okay with twisting the truth as long as it fits your agenda? somehow people are actually receptive to arguments like yours, it boggles the mind. criticize when there is something to criticize, in Google's case this is not hard. viewing the world in black and white is the height of immaturity


"Twisting the truth" in this case is using a term that literally everybody except for one deliberate contrarian understands to mean the same thing.

A good faith argument shouldn't come down to semantics. Once you realize that the other side isn't using a term in the way you think it should be used, you can either stop the debate to argue the semantics, or accept their definition as the terms for the debate.




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