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From: cass-hacks
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:13:34 -0700
Local: Fri, Aug 3 2007 8:13 am
Subject: Re: Google's "Don't Be Evil" slogan
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Randy, will you please stop assuming you can read people's minds and
know their motivations?

Were you to read the mind and know the motivation of someone who comes
to a search engine's help forum and only posts complaints, could you
not maybe come to the conclusion that they worked for a competitor?

I'm not saying you actually do but if one tries to infer motivations
based on actions, one can come to a lot of strange conclusions.

More often than not, inferred motivations have more to say about the
one doing the inferring than the one having their motivations inferred
and in any event, they achieve nothing.

Craig

On Aug 3, 8:27 pm, Randy P. wrote:

> On Aug 3, 6:12 am, Dan42 wrote:

> > Adam, I don't know if you'll read this message but you should really
> > get the help of the community on this. Get volunteers to filter out
> > the 99.9% of redundant/misplaced questions. Then you can answer the
> > 0.1% of questions that really *do* matter.

> I've been saying that for years.  They have billions of dollars and
> they wouldn't even have to pay people.  There's thousands of college
> kids (and older) in their area that would KILL to get even a voluntary
> job at the Gplex as some kind of internship, or just to get the
> experience in the internet fields.  They try and find reasons not to
> give direct help because they generally simply don't care about site
> owners.  They are "too big and important" for that, they forget it's
> US THAT GOT THEM THERE in the first place!  The other SE's can answer
> email, even with their relatively "limited" resources, so certainly
> could google!
> Randy


 
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