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0 pointsunderdeserver11mo ago0 comments

Google contributes to society.

Search helps people find information. YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created. Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

There's a lot of bad, but no contribution to society? That's a bit much.

Disclaimer: Ex-googler (left 2 years ago).

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palata11mo ago

> Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

I haven't used Google Translate in years. You do know there are alternatives, don't you?

underdeserverOP11mo ago

I do. I try them from time to time, they weren't better.

palata11mo ago

I didn't say they were better. Just that without Google Translate, I doubt you would have had a much harder time in your recent trip to Japan because you could have used them, and they aren't particularly worse :-).

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Mithriil11mo ago

Try out the big LLMs for translating and explaining translation (e.g. ChatGPT). Much better than Google translate in my experience.

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justin6611mo ago

> YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created.

That's bizarre.

mrgoldenbrown11mo ago

They are actively enshittifying search and YouTube. So if these things are good for society, and Google is making them worse , it feels like we shouldn't be giving them too much credit.

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0 pointsunderdeserver11mo ago0 comments

Google contributes to society.

Search helps people find information. YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created. Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

There's a lot of bad, but no contribution to society? That's a bit much.

Disclaimer: Ex-googler (left 2 years ago).

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palata11mo ago

> Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

I haven't used Google Translate in years. You do know there are alternatives, don't you?

underdeserverOP11mo ago

I do. I try them from time to time, they weren't better.

palata11mo ago

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Mithriil11mo ago

Try out the big LLMs for translating and explaining translation (e.g. ChatGPT). Much better than Google translate in my experience.

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justin6611mo ago

> YouTube is quite possibly the most prolific source of learning ever created.

That's bizarre.

mrgoldenbrown11mo ago

They are actively enshittifying search and YouTube. So if these things are good for society, and Google is making them worse , it feels like we shouldn't be giving them too much credit.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse