Should I be afraid to research my good ideas on google?
Ideas, in all likelihood they’re why you’re reading this sentence. You are the type of person who needs to know. So you’ve come to an answer site full of other folks who want answers just like you. (except here they’re jellies!)
Now, for me ideas are a way of life. They’re what keeps me going. My ideas are like a favorite sweater. Many of them are original, and I want to keep them that way. I also think that many of them were independently thought of already by other likeminded individuals who have already made great successful strides with them before they ever dawned on me.
But others noone seems to have thought yet. How do I know that? Because I checked Google, of course.
But I don’t like the idea that once I type something into a search bar it goes straight into the hands of a building, or buildings, or small cities full, of the most talented, brightest, wealthiest IT development teams on earth, who have deftly shown a compunction to blatantly target and copy successful businesses!
So, should I, feeling this paranoia, still search away using terminology that gives away my intellectual property!?
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I will be amazed if they have the time to search through millions of searches and find yours and identify it as useful, especially because they have no way of automatically knowing that they have found what they are looking for (which means that they need a human to evaluate the usefulness of each search). They will most likely have an electronic record somewhere, but the question is if they are able to look through it and find anything.
Also, if Google wanted to find anything in its massive database, it would need an automated search. All searches like that operate off of the principle that you know what the thing you’re looking for looks like before you find it and know immediately when you find it.
For example, a Google search on “Happy Birthday.” Here, you describe the page that you are looking for – it contains the words “happy birthday” – before you even lay eyes on the site that you want. The search engine knows when it has found a match immediately. Either it has those words or it doesn’t.
Since Google doesn’t have the slightest clue what your search contains, it is nearly impossible to find your search in any reasonable period of time.
Actually, one of my ideas was an idea-stealing algorithm that is able to parse other people’s searches to identify those with good ideas. Unfortunately, someone else was already there first, and they stole my idea when I searched to see if it already existed. But I got them back, I stole my own idea right back and patented it in China. It has since been taken over by the Russian mafia, which was then taken over by the Baranesian digital scam banks. Never heard of the Baranesians, have you? That’s because they don’t exist. But let me ask you this. If they did exist, wouldn’t they be stealing every good idea ever put out there on the internet? Wouldn’t they?
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”
—Howard Aiken
One good idea, compared to the other 6.9 billion people searching for porn.
I’m not gonna sort though that 24/7
Good one, Wundy !
Is it YA refugee night in the Social section? This is the third Q I’ve encountered with that unique “flavor”.
Or is it just insomniacal me, needing to go to bed already ?
Oh, the ineffable mystery….
:D
@Ltryptophan and @Buttonstc, thank you. It is just my sense of the absurd. And I wouldn’t say you were a YA audience. I think it takes a bit more sophistication to see everything going on there. A lot of references that most young people won’t get. Sigh.
Beware the Baranesians!
Under the Orange Tree!
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