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Google loses fight to hide 2021 money pit: $26B in default contracts
(arstechnica.com)
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Some of his opinions I can't agree with.
Yeah, I hate it when grandma sends a bunch of snaps rather than posting to Facebook.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2017/07/26/what-are-the-most-popular-websites-by-demographic/?sh=7f0ed13356f8 Looking at Forbes' "Top 25 Websites with the Most Senior Audience", look at the top sites:
You're telling me young people drove them there?
So 6-10 years ago, someone's grandkid said, "Hey, granny, I gotta go. Jimmy just found this amaze-balls puzzle at thejigsawpuzzles.com, and I'm gonna finish it before him." and that's how granny found out. /s
No, but during the day I search (duckduckgo) for various issues at work, and at home for all sort of personal information (what's that restaurant's menu/phone number?, I need a schematic for washing machine, I even search prices to print a poster at Staples vs. Walmart vs. the UPS Store but used search engines to look at various local options too).
While search engines can provide answers, they can be the conduit to get us to the answers we need (such as how much sodium is in this dish?). I can't imagine being on the Internet and going a full day without using a search engine at least once.
I use Google to spellcheck because predictive text can't spell. What a time to be alive.
I am also guilty of doing this fairly frequently. What's ironic is that I use Gboard and its predictive text is hot garbage at times while Google will predict what I need almost immediately.
Feel like the inverse is more apt: where old people go, the young run the fuck away from.
The only backing to their first claim is that young people were on Facebook first and then the audience generalized. Younger people tend to be earlier adopters.