Algorithmic cruelty: when Gmail adds your harasser to your speed-dial

They had Orkut and Google Reader as incredibly powerful social networks but they killed both to shoehorn Google Plus. All Orkut users then went to Facebook and the users of Reader went to Feedly and Your Old Reader to read and twitter or Facebook to interact. They alienated users, failed to transition them to Google Plus and pretty much made crappy social network synonymous with Google. Do they learn anything? Nope.

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