Tuesday, March 29, 2016

ways google could be doing things better

i am generally not impressed by what google is doing.
i think a lot of other savvy folks would agree.
here are some reasons why google sucks.
1. no more than 1000 search results.
2. old school and useful search operators like link: or linked: or related: or whatever don't even really work anymore
3. the youtube interface is nonsense and the fact that nobody at google cares about providing a 1:1 video size feature just shows that they are audiovisual scrubs on level of people who watch 4:3 480i video on a 1366x768 hdtv with a 16:9 aspect ratio.
4. youtube is being prioritized in search results to the point where searching google is kind of like searching youtube, which is dumb because google is supposed to be a web search engine, not a youtube search engine.  obviously this helps their ad revenue.
5. google is literally killing the real internet with their search engine results.  yeah, i understand that web 2.0 is about articles, forum posts, and youtube videos, but i want to receive interesting search results for independent and interesting websites that were made by people with an aesthetic sense that wasn't inspired by bloggers that told them they could earn money.  if i wanted to see really dumb forum posts from 2009 i would search google. oh wait. what?

i'm not a great programmer but i'm also not an idiot so it didn't take me very long to realize that 480by360 was the display size for youtube videos even though i'm usually watching videos at 480p.

VIDEOS SHOULD REALISTICALLY ALWAYS PLAY AT A ONE TO ONE RESOLUTION.
if i choose 720p, and the video is 1280x720, please show me a 1280x720 video unless i choose otherwise.  wow. are you serious? i can opt to watch HD video? at 480x360? wow! this internet thing sure is great!

the only real explanation for this oversight is widespread idiocy and not giving a damn.  like yeah i understand some of you people out there work at google and you fancy yourselves to be geniuses.  well guess what.  you, like other workers, are just someone who occupies a position in a capitalist organization, does work-like activities slow enough to prevent progress that might jeopardize your job, while receiving a salary.  if you and your coworkers were really geniuses then you would have already done something to help people watch videos at native resolution.

i'm not about that life where i glorify "hotshot ninja web developers".  the web sucks for the most part and i'm not impressed by anything i see in the mainstream internet.  your back end might be cool and i'm impressed by the number of hard drives you have but your front end sucks and you don't do anything for real audio visual desktop software so screw you.

like yeah i understand that journalists think google is godlike and philanthropic (that or evil) and the foundation of the world of information or whatever but this is just not true.  they are lazy and lame and with the financial resources that they have they could be doing way better software development.  all google is doing is monopolizing the internet, not doing anything to make it better, stealing your emails and information, bragging about doing dumb web developer stuff, all the while metaphorically using a monitor that's scaled wrong and not at native resolution.

y'all have to depend on independent people to do all of the real work in the outside world like creating new music and new video content, and desktop applications which don't make any money, slaving away in sweatshops and factories, engineering stuff and doing sciencey things, and then you insert yourself in between the audience and the creators, ruin the display of their video with your advertisements and non-native-resolution web garbage and hosting of lame comments, and make the internet a place for extracting resources out of people through advertising impressions.  and you think you wanna be ubiquitous by calling yourself Alphabet.  how pretentious!  why don't you do something legit, like make Android not suck, or make some art that doesn't make me want to puke?  it's obvious how y'all are purposefully slowing down human progress, otherwise you would have made better software.

like yo, it took until Android 6.0 for you to let people use microsd storage the same way as internal storage?  this was part of the "make people buy more expensive phones, try to make them never be proficient at desktop computing" plan that y'all have got going on in the tech world.   every single one of your google logo sketches has been stupid and overrated and basically you're overrated and you suck.  basically to me google has begun to represent the "make money from phone users" media agenda and i think the anti-computing decisions that google makes in synergy with their appropriation of human intelligence has become a serious drain on real progress.

like google would be one of those companies that announces in early 2017 that they have succeeded in creating an awesome AI even though it's just some dumb text-based program that runs on a web server.  how much more blatantly scrub can you get than being on the factually wrong side of "hype up text based artificial intelligence as actual artificial intelligence?"  and yo, tesseract-ocr sucks.  y'all obviously must have better stuff than that.  and if google really tries to prove that they aren't scrubs they will just end up exposing their systematic suppression of superior software.  if you for instance, revealed that you have an expert system AI that has implanted itself into many many systems and which operates to allow undetected extraction of data from peoples' machines then that'll probably really bother people.

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