Wordle was purchased from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
但後續的動作就不知道了,也許是整合 word puzzle,也許是藉此延伸 social network?
1999-2004
No longer talks about users ‘in aggregate’
1999 年的版本強調了整體性,後來因為針對性廣告而被拿掉:
1999
Google may share information about users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. However, we only talk about our users in aggregate, not as individuals. For example, we may disclose how frequently the average Google user visits Google, or which other query words are most often used with the query word "Microsoft."
接下來的是蒐集的項目大幅增加,讓分析更準確:
2005-2011
Google shares more data for better targeting
然後是更多產品線互相使用使用者行為資訊:
2012-2017
Its complicated business requires a more complicated policy
New York City joined Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, and Philadelphia in banning employers from asking job applicants about their pay at current or past jobs after the city council passed the measure in a vote on Wednesday.
When the National Society of High School Scholars asked 18,000 Americans, ages 15 to 29, to rank their ideal future employers, the results were curious. To nobody’s surprise, Google, Apple and Facebook appeared high on the list, but so did the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency.
As of November 17, 2015 there were 35,966 active Airbnb listings in New York.
而作者則發現了 2015 年 11 月 17 日當天,Airbnb 站上的資料被「清理」過:
A major part of Airbnb's recent data release was a snapshot of New York City listings as of November 17, 2015. This report shows that the snapshot was photoshopped: in the days leading up to November 17, Airbnb ensured a flattering picture by carrying out a one-time targeted purge of more than 1,000 listings. The company then presented November 17 as a typical day in the company’s operations and mis-represented the one-time purge as a historical trend.
而且只針對紐約地區清理:
No similar event took place in other cities in North America or elsewhere.