Something I learned from one of my professors back in university is that two people can construct entirely logical arguments, but if they stem from different sets of axioms, they might still find themselves in disagreement.
In a discussion, if our axioms significantly diverge, it might not be worthwhile to engage in a debate.
Seriously, how hard can it be? It's not like it's a completely new form of interaction. Vim and emacs are the ones that are exceptions in regard to UX.
I use qutebrowser (has vim-bindings), sway wm (I've customised it to have vim-bindings), zsh (with vim-bindings), weechat (with vim-bindings), mutt (still getting started with mutt, but it has vim-bindings too), and vim itself. These are pretty much the only pieces of software I interact with, so you can imagine how central vi/vim-bindings are in my life.
The basics are easy. A rudimentary normal mode with HJKL for movement is not hard. Block-select, sensible paragraph hops, copy/paste registers, repeatable macros, etc. is much harder to get right, and rough corners there can be a deal-breaker. Vim is a lot more than moving a cursor with your right hand.
That would be brutal and probably antitrust-y...better to implement some algorithm change for product search that weighs in counterfeit risk.
Search for "lightning cable" shows multiple Amazon listings on the first page, similar for batteries and other items that are routinely counterfeited. Google isn't doing the user a favor by routing them to suspect merchandise.
I assume he was talking about non-paid search results in which case: how so?
It's no like you're going to change your search engine to Bing because Google stopped showing organic search results for Amazon.
I just searched for e.g. "Acer Predator Helios 300" and Amazon is second non-paid result.
I would imagine that's the case for a lot of searches and not being in search results would hurt them a lot.
And to be clear: I think it should be illegal for Google to selectively and anti-competitively tweak search results just as it should be illegal for Amazon to selectively and anti-competitively refuse to sell products.
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