TEH 227: Friend, Azure and Google news. What’s wrong with search?

TEH Podcast

In This Episode: Friend, Azure and Google news. What’s wrong with search?
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 1:00 LN: Follow-up, sort of: AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
• 6:00 LN: Monday’s Azure outage. Not so much about Azure itself, but again about shared points of failure.
  • Last week: DDoS attack
  • This week: perhaps a config change
  • Previous week: SolarWinds: a bug fix gone wrong.
• 14:00 LN: Google
  • “A judge ruled Monday that Google violated antitrust law by paying other companies to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers”
  • “In his comments in court, Nadella dismissed as “bogus” Google’s argument that it’s easy for users to change their search defaults,” – Ironic, VERY Ironic.
  • ‘Google is a monopolist’: Tech giant loses antitrust suit over search business in huge victory for DOJ
  • 20:00 GR: What will Apple do? Ask you to choose? Make or invest in a search engine? (Is Bing the default in Edge?)
  • 24:00 LN: Why I’ve Stopped Using Google Search
    • AI content SEO
    • We talk about how Google is a monopoly from the website content creator site.
  • 35:00 What if search engines go away?
    • 42:00 For lots of people the search engine is the internet

Get off my lawn! (an occasional, as-needed, segment)

• 57:00 LN: Periods are passive aggressive?
• 58:15 GR: Question, answer, crickets…

Ain’t it Cool

• 1:00:30 LN: Exploding Kittens (Netflix) Tom Ellis, Lucifer
• 1:02:00 GR: Time Bandits

BSP – Blatant Self Promotion

• 1:05:45 LN: Why I Avoid Windows’ Default Folders – askleo.com/172543
• 1:06:30 GR: ClipTools version 1.5 https://macmost.com/whats-new-in-cliptools-1-5.html