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Seb Janacek Minority Report: Apple alienating App Store developers? ... Fax - + 44(0)203 031 1357 Reference - JS/JK/SAP/CL/MAN/011 Country Code - UK ...software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39126208,00.htm - 81k - Cached - Similar pages
which I discovered using this search, it gave me pause.
As I scanned down the results page I was immediately drawn to the text: Minority Report: Apple alienating App Store developers? I have read countless articles since the Android press conference last month with a similar theme. I checked the search result link here and the cached result here and I couldn't find the search terms I had originally searched for, nor the text "Minority Report: Apple alienating App Store developers?" These pages are from 2004 so it makes sense that mention of the App Store would simply be too prescient. I have encountered this often frustrating behavior often in Google search results when researching stories about my own app and company.
But the web mash up here, in the emerging arena of smartphone behemoths Apple and Google, reads as strategic and deeply sinister. Has Google been using subliminal techniques of suggestion in their search results? Have they been stoking the fire of iPhone developer ire to orchestrate a brain drain to Android?
You must love the conspiratorial implications!
2 comments:
I suspect that the text in question was in the "Commentary" box some time between indexing and caching. That box is updated irrespective of the age of the article it appears on. Seb Janacek's Minority Report, a Mac-oriented tech column is one of the columns they host there. The post about the App Store was made on the 14th of Sept., so the article must've been indexed around then, while the caching didn't occur until the 22nd.
Ah that takes all the fun out of the conspiracy though!
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