I own a business in Somerset, UK. The site we are on is roughly 40% us and 60% Somerset County Council property. We each have our own UK postcode - normally reserved for around 5-80 properties.
The SCC bit has multiple uses - a transport division (minibuses for schools) and nowadays the vestiges of supported living. Its being wound down and is being sold off.
We moved to Yeovil Five Ways from near Hazlebury Plucknet (yes!) around 10 years ago. Google had no idea what was going on at this site when we moved in and I looked us up. Our bit was formally NHS - a clinic. The first thing I noticed was that their idea of the SCC "Resource Centre" was way off so I submitted a change - went through in seconds. When the eye of Sauron eventually noticed that my business had moved, it screwed up the entrance. I tried to change it. No dice.
I can make a change to a publicly owned property but not my own.
Google's insistence on hiding behind computers ("the Algorithm") needs to be challenged. It is way more important than my silly little snag. Google need to employ more people and not sack them! When an org. becomes the de facto authority on something then obviously they have developed a monopoly. Monopolies need to have responsibilities enforced on them.
This may come off as a little intense but this seems like the central issue with capitalism in our world today. Competition is competition to lower human expectations to increase corporate profits instead of giving more to humanity on the back of the corporation that has grown a capability to do it.
To me that doesn’t come off as intense at all, it’s just correctly reducing this down to the real underlying problem. Vital social tools that we use to live our lives are being operated by shady corporations for profit and not the greater good.
The SCC bit has multiple uses - a transport division (minibuses for schools) and nowadays the vestiges of supported living. Its being wound down and is being sold off.
We moved to Yeovil Five Ways from near Hazlebury Plucknet (yes!) around 10 years ago. Google had no idea what was going on at this site when we moved in and I looked us up. Our bit was formally NHS - a clinic. The first thing I noticed was that their idea of the SCC "Resource Centre" was way off so I submitted a change - went through in seconds. When the eye of Sauron eventually noticed that my business had moved, it screwed up the entrance. I tried to change it. No dice.
I can make a change to a publicly owned property but not my own.
Google's insistence on hiding behind computers ("the Algorithm") needs to be challenged. It is way more important than my silly little snag. Google need to employ more people and not sack them! When an org. becomes the de facto authority on something then obviously they have developed a monopoly. Monopolies need to have responsibilities enforced on them.