Google measures latency at microseconds.100 ms ≈ 0.2% fewer searches. Google tracks this very closely and invests a lot as that's the operational life blood of the company. You can make more money by simply making search easier.

To save "it's easy" and Google chooses to nuke their own products for... I don't know what, stick it the European regulators, strikes me as incorrect. It's because it's incredibly hard to navigate this arbitrary punative regulatory framework.

No one would use the other maps because other maps are worse. As much as euro regulators hem and haw about lack of competition, it's precisely these types of dictats that make Europe not have any viable competitors in tech.

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piyuv 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google also makes money by making search worse.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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bko 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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KronisLV 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I often hate how loaded/incendiary Ed Zitron's tone is and don't like some of his takes, but I wouldn't call it "some random blog". I run a random blog, that guy's closer to being a proper journalist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Zitron

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bko 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Referencing a blog is fine. But when you're on a forum discussing ideas just forwarding a blog link is bad taste. Summarize the key arguments. Do some work.

It's like if someone is arguing free markets and I just provide a link to a WSJ editorial. It's rude, requires no work on the sender and imposes work on the receiver to read and synthesize and respond to the argument. I see this occasionally where someone will just have an LLM generate a response (which it will happily do for any topic taking any position) and just passing it off.

	▲	KronisLV 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Summarize the key arguments. Do some work. I'd still take at least a blog post with relevant information over nothing, but yeah, that is fair.

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cwillu 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> No one would use the other maps because other maps are worse.

Do you realize how many commercial driving apps are based around OSM data?