Katherine Berry
@effthealgorithm
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Writer. OG blogger. Former attorney & radio journalist. Working on a new project exploring the intersection of female aging and a culture trying to erase us.
Kansas City
Joined May 2012
48 hours until the movers arrive. Despite three weeks of packing, I feel nowhere ready.
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@gaganghotra_ “Interest graph of potential audience” is better known as keyword search volume, and writing for that is exactly what’s getting punished by Google these days.
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@DarrylMason Ok, I’ll use AI to replicate and summarize your YouTube videos so I don’t have to listen to intros or watch ads. Hope you don’t rely on those for income. You’re cool with that, right?
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Which, incidentally, proves exactly what we small publishers have been saying since they introduced AIOs.
Google’s Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Shows Its AI Simply Plagiarizing Existing Web Copy
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Yes! 🙌🏽
I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place. I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
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RT @homemadehooplah: Just a reminder: On Google maps, you can submit corrections for any errors you see. So for example, if a body of wate…
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@martinshaners What, and miss the chance to passively immunize them by coating their food with parental salivary droplets? 🤣
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In other news: if you have the Starbucks app you can get a free coffee today to help you get over the Super Bowl Flu.
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@gaganghotra_ Honestly, some of us are going back to reading print media. It’s just as portable, no trolls, no clickbait, no CLS issues and the ads are easy to ignore. Print editions of The Atlantic, The Week, New Yorker, Harper’s hit my physical mailbox daily now.
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It’s more that they’re misleading users because captcha sets a tracking cookie without asking for consent. That cookie, of course, can benefit advertisers and certainly benefits Google. Meanwhile, captcha increases bandwidth costs. So once again, the site publisher pays for Google gaining added user info the publisher isn’t privy to, but which financially benefits Google.
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