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  • minorninth@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml***
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    9 months ago

    Certainly many others would have tried to invent something like the web.

    HyperCard predated the web browser and had the concept of easy to build pages that linked. Lots of people were working on ways to deliver apps over the Internet.

    I think in some alternative timeline we’d still have a lot of interactive content on the Internet somewhat like the web, but probably based on different technology. Maybe more proprietary.




  • I think there are different aspects to it.

    Amazon’s delivery service is better than ever. You get products in half the time, with less packaging, and fewer miles traveled to deliver it to you, without any significant increase in delivery fees.

    Price is still competitive when you take into account delivery cost and speed. If you don’t care about those, Amazon isn’t the cheapest.

    Search and reviews are down the tubes. It’s like Amazon no longer cares if their site is overrun with crap products as long as people are buying them.

    Amazon still works great if you only buy name-brand products that are fulfilled by Amazon.












  • I don’t think we know that yet, and I think the discovery will be interesting.

    How many reports were there? Were they credible? What other sources of truth did Google consult in deciding to ignore those reports?

    Google gets lots of reports and needs to filter out spam, and especially malicious reports like trying to mark a competitor’s business as closed, or trying to get less traffic in your neighborhood for selfish reasons. It wouldn’t be reasonable for Google to accept every user suggestion either.

    So if Google reached out to the town and the town said the bridge is fine, then it’s not Google’s fault. If they ignored multiple credible complaints because the area was too rural to care about, that might be negligent.