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BBC removes its shows from Google's Podcasts app
If you search for BBC programs on the Google Podcasts app or through Assistant, you might get a handful of results at most -- or none at all -- instead of the dozens you'd usually get in the past. The broadcaster has pulled its offerings from the app after the tech giant altered its search function to direct viewers to its own service instead of BBC Sounds and other third-party services.
[...] [Perhaps] the main reason why the broadcaster chose to abandon the app is somewhere near the bottom of [BBC's Distribution and Business Development Director Kiera Clifton's] post, particularly the part where he talks about audience data. By directing users to its own app, Google is depriving the BBC of information on what potential listeners are interested in. The broadcaster uses that data to determine what's popular or trending, so it can create more programs of a similar nature. It could also use that information to surface similar shows for a user and to make sure it doesn't have gaps in its coverage.
Google is looking for a solution, so expect more user tracking.
Also at Android Authority.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @07:48AM (4 children)
No, just no.
She is a remainer and has basically fucked the whole Brexit process at the behest of her EU masters, this isn't tenacity, this is about staying in place to obey the orders to create maximal damage to the process and the credibility of the UK parliament.
Remember, this isn't just about Britain, this is about sending a message to other potential EU refuseniks (helllo Italy) about the costs of trying to leave Hotel California..
I'm a Scot, a Nationalist, a SNP voter but not a SNP supporter, and someone who voted for Brexit as I saw it primarilly as another means to the end which is Scottish Independence, but also as I fail to see the logic of gaining independence from the control of the English state only to then subject yourself to the control of their German cousins and their lackeys. I knew the Brexit process was going to be a 'popcorn' event, but I'd no idea it was going to be this much fun..in fact, bemusedly watching the debacle unfolding over the past couple of days on TV about the vote today these words came to mind;
'What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro' many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor's wages. '
I'll leave it up to you to track down the source of that one to see why they're sort of amusingly inappropriately appropriate here..schadenfreude, indeed.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Friday March 29 2019, @08:37AM
I think if you see everything as a conspiracy, its not really the world that is conspiring but probably you. But hey, hope it goes well for you. I really do like Scotland and hope I will be able to have vacations there again. The best vacations I had in quite while was there, in a cabin near Kil Martin.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 29 2019, @08:43AM (1 child)
Based on the news I get here, UK parliament didn't need help in trashing their credibility. And I don't believe the news outlets in Australia has anything in the game to be biased one way or the other.
Are you sure that the Brexiters really have a single mind, or it was just a matter of "the illusion of a new beginning"? You know? Like doing nothing about the real causes by hoping to get a happier result only because you try something different. Happens every year with lotsa people making New Year resolutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday March 29 2019, @09:45AM
Brexit was something
Therefore they had to do brexit
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:04PM
The problem with Brexit, is that the Brexiteers didn't have any good plans on how to implement it, and most importantly how to deal with the problem of the Irish border.
So, since you think it is a good idea, how should it be implemented? And don't forget to take in to account the Good Friday Agreement.