I know it's just an anecdote, but my biggest problem with Google's Bard/Gemini is that the moment I tried to ask a question about something - I started getting ads all over the internet and social media related to that.
Doing this with ChatGPT 4.0 for months and months did not cause this type of behavior.
Does that happen even with Bard Activity turned off? It's kind of silly of Google because the types of queries I would send to Bard are the type that I wouldn't care to see as adverts anyway!
I was about to comment on the trademark issue but then I saw this top comment. I think you're making a mistake with your approach of 'crossing that bridge'. Trademark violation is no joke and it's so much easier to change the name early on rather than when you have some brand recognition and thousands of users. Learn from other people's mistake, don't make your own.
Personal story time. Back in 2005 I came to the US for the first time through the Work and Travel program. I was working as a lifeguard and had a lot of free time while nobody was in the pool. I decided to take a Zend Certified Engineer certification - back then it was PHP 4 - thinking it might help me get a CS internship in the US next summer. I passed it and 3 months later Zend offered me to take a PHP 5 certification for free. I was already back in my home country and of course I agreed. After passing the exam it turned out I was #8 overall and #1 in my country to pass it. I put it on my resume.
6 months later I found a job and moved to Boston. After working at that company for a few months me and my boss went out for drinks and I asked him why he decided to hire me. He said that my certification was basically a deal-maker. He thought it was a sign that I was at the top of my profession. I thought it was funny, but, hey, it worked.
Super fast forward - a few years later I Fat FIREd at the age of 33 and I'm absolutely sure that the initial certification set a certain chain of reaction that led to it. So even though I think in most cases the certifications are absolutely useless, I'm absolutely sure that when you have to stand out from the crowd, especially at the junior level - they are super useful.
It's true, to a first approximation. Rich people look at money as a goal in itself. They collect it, hoard it, curate it, maintain it. Think of a library, or the biggest MTG card collection you know of. Now imagine that same mindset applied to money. Not money-doing-things, just money, sitting there, "on the books", but otherwise just a collection of amounts.
Now picture the worst episode of "Hoarders", and imagine all that weird obsessiveness and attachment to the thing.
This is a polite thing to do, but I don't think that there is any legal precedence for it being an actual requirement. Notably, both Apple and The Wayback Machine publicly disregard robots.txt files [1]. I would be very curious to read any court ruling that determined a robots.txt file needs to be respected.
It depends on the intention. You should respect robots.txt for search indexing, for example, but not necessarily for something like archiving or creating alternative page layouts (e.g outline/reader view).
They look at them, but they don't follow them strictly [1]. They make judgement calls on what they should do rather than treating robots.txt files as a legal contract.
It's a pity that robots.txt doesn't let you specify what the crawler can do with the resources it's allowed to fetch.
I think that if we had such a feature (or something similar, like a "License" header) standardized early enough , a few issues regarding crawling and search engines would be moot, or at least easier to solve automatically.
It’s the TOS itself that is legally tenuous, so you’re best bet is to completely ignore it. There’s no picking and choosing part s of it. Ignore all of it or implicitly accept all of it.
>> soon after Halcourt’s toddler entered the SUV through the open back door and crawled into the driver’s seat, he first pressed the brake pedal then shifted the gear selector to Drive
How is it even possible for a 2 year old? The whole story is just really hard to believe
