Even the search in their other products is going to shit. Tried looking for something in your gmail lately? Decent odds it just straight up won't return things on searches that are absolutely in the email text.
Google is a trash fire of a company, their whole advertising business model is built on lies (microtargeting is bullshit), and I'm glad more people are starting to notice that they suck.
Once the companies paying for auto targeting also figure it out, the internet will collapse fast.
I was looking to buy a couch, I got a lot of ads for different places selling me couches.
I bought a couch.
The ads keep coming.
I think Google and Facebook know I bought the couch, but they are basically fleecing the ad buyers because there probably isn’t a “if the person buys a big ticket item, stop trying to sell them one - setting “
:pain: The other day I typed in my mom's name to try and find an email she sent a couple weeks ago, and it didn't turn up. I eventually found it by going to "all mail" and using Firefox's "find on page" function instead of Google's search mail function, but how the hell is that broken? It's just a simple string search in a database, I could program it myself in Godot!
It's an old, established project and the corporate culture is that old projects are where your career goes to die. So only the dumbest employees are working on it. Plus it's free, and probably not very profitable because users push back against privacy invasions in their email more than other places.
I wonder if the enterprise gmail is broken in the same way. They care a little bit about the customers who actually pay them.
Even the search in their other products is going to shit. Tried looking for something in your gmail lately? Decent odds it just straight up won't return things on searches that are absolutely in the email text.
Google is a trash fire of a company, their whole advertising business model is built on lies (microtargeting is bullshit), and I'm glad more people are starting to notice that they suck.
Once the companies paying for auto targeting also figure it out, the internet will collapse fast.
I was looking to buy a couch, I got a lot of ads for different places selling me couches.
I bought a couch.
The ads keep coming.
I think Google and Facebook know I bought the couch, but they are basically fleecing the ad buyers because there probably isn’t a “if the person buys a big ticket item, stop trying to sell them one - setting “
"If we try hard enough, maybe they'll buy a second, non-matching couch! Or maybe they'll return the one they got and buy ours!"
Hell no. They would be Mad if they knew.
It’s why they advertise to people who are looking for couches.
They don’t want to waste money on people who aren’t actively looking. Otherwise they would just be ads and not premium targeted ads.
:pain: The other day I typed in my mom's name to try and find an email she sent a couple weeks ago, and it didn't turn up. I eventually found it by going to "all mail" and using Firefox's "find on page" function instead of Google's search mail function, but how the hell is that broken? It's just a simple string search in a database, I could program it myself in Godot!
It's an old, established project and the corporate culture is that old projects are where your career goes to die. So only the dumbest employees are working on it. Plus it's free, and probably not very profitable because users push back against privacy invasions in their email more than other places.
I wonder if the enterprise gmail is broken in the same way. They care a little bit about the customers who actually pay them.