Caroline & Craig Makepeace

Travel addicts proving travel does not have to stop after kids. Sharing awe & wonder. Award-winning travel blog, which gave us a green card

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@travelexx @travelexx I enjoyed the coffee at Shoe Lane Coffee (7 Tara St), not far from O'Connell Bridge & the Liffey.

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One of our favorite moments from our 5 day #Wyoming road trip was overlooking the stunning Fremont Lake. See all the highlights here: https://t.co/tfDyJ6uPnJ @visitwyoming [ad] #familytravel #roadtrip

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#Beaufort in South Carolina is charming and historic. We've been several times. Here's how to plan a trip there: https://t.co/jZOQEGGo0F #southcarolina #beaufort

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@ThisIsRaleighNC @Hilldrup #Wendell looks great in #NorthCarolina.

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Fantastic 6-day road trip through the Salt to Stone region of southwest #Wyoming in partnership with @visitwyoming. Our trip was filled with adventure, history, great food + stunning scenery. Follow our itinerary here: https://t.co/tfDyJ6uPnJ #travelwyoming #familytravel

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@DaiCa2011 @CapitalOne It is based upon the day you sign up. We were checking the expiry date often this past month as I didn't want to miss it, but I was waiting for confirmation from my parents who I've not seen in 7 years and are visiting next month. So we wanted to use it for them. @CapitalOne

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Would love for them to help, but after the customer service we just received, I doubt it. Really dislike @CapitalOne now. Like a lot

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@yTravelBlog @CapitalOne That is bad customer relations! Can you help @AskCapitalOne ?

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@DaiCa2011 @CapitalOne Yeah..Bad decision to use them. Have been with @AmericanExpress for 9 years and have not had one bad experience. One year with @CapitalOne is a different story

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Hey @CapitalOne, you just took away my $300 travel credit. When it says it expires on April 30, that means April 30, not before!!! Guess you just lost a loyal customer!!!

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Sadly the customer service @CapitalOne couldn't have cared less. Refusing to help, even though we explained that it was still the day of expiry. We should have been allowed to use it. @AskCapitalOne Terrible experience. I know @AmericanExpress would have fixed it

[JustMe @DaiCa2011]

@yTravelBlog @CapitalOne Prett sure they will fix it 100%.

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#KylemoreAbbey is one of #Ireland’s top tourist attractions located just over an hour from Galway. Built in the late 1800s, today Kylemore Abbey is owned and run by the Benedictine community. Have you been to Kylemore Abbey?

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Top 6 Things to Do in #Florence. What a fantastic city and highlight of our #Italy trip last summer. The history, the architecture, the gardens, the river, the food. Here is our full list: https://t.co/tNWGJ8IN1g

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25 #SpringBreak destinations - if you're still looking for tips & inspiration for a getaway this year, we just published a post sharing our recommendations for 25 destinations. Which one of these places is on your list? https://t.co/HEGNISHgVw @AllianzTravelUS #familytravel

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3 places in #Florida that are lesser known. If you're looking for adventure, natural beauty, and smaller crowds when you @VisitFlorida, check these destinations out: https://t.co/dOlyvaqtVZ #VisitFl #LoveFL #usatravel

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What is new in #Florida for 2024? Plus get 15% off hotels with Expedia as part of National Plan for Vacation Day: https://t.co/RRiYEsMJYZ #sponsord @VISITFLORIDA #traveling

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Chasing sunsets in #Florence, Italy: https://t.co/tNWGJ8IN1g

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The Pantheon in #Rome is impressive. And the oculus fascinating. Have you been inside? More Rome tips here: https://t.co/D3a2RbFzzm

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Highly accurate. Don't use Google anymore. Their search results are very unhelpful, they steal from creators, and have truly forgotten their place. I'll be in the class action!

[Sean Kaye @SeanDoesLife]

This is an exceptional thread and conversation that @natejhake started.

In essence, Google took his images (some including him!) and his content, created snippets out of it in SERPs and basically generated a scenario where a search user doesn’t even have to go to his site to get an answer USING HIS CONTENT.

Clearly, that’s a “win” for the search user and a win for Google (they still surface ads on the SERPs page), but for Nate, that’s devastating.

Google’s claims that their focus on providing better results and experiences for search users is probably true and fair.

But there is a hierarchy.

If the search user is at the apex of the hierarchy, then the content creator that services the users information needs comes next.

But unfortunately, like all companies that get stupidly large, Google has started to routinely forget its place in the hierarchy.

It is third.

Search User
Knowledge/Info Creator
Google

But that’s not how Google now sees itself because it believes it can create knowledge and information too.

So now, in Google’s model it’s:

Search User
Google
Info Creator

That’s broken. Quite badly.

It leads to intellectual property theft and bordering on plagiarism.

It’s been coming for awhile, but it seems like AI has accelerated it considerably.

At some point, this is going to backfire.

I’m not sure how or when, but it is inevitable.

At some point, Google is going to need an awakening about what it is doing with search and pivot back to being a service provider that connects people with information creators’ websites.

Google was never intended to be the place where you GET the information and especially not get the information essentially scraped and reposted almost verbatim from other people.

It feels like a line has been crossed by Google over the last year or so.

A line where the argument of “good faith” breaks down.

It not longer feels like they are indexing, scraping, and cataloguing the internet to help people find things but instead it feels like they are doing those things to prevent people from leaving Google while still making ad revenue while not referring traffic.

The middleman has misunderstood its place.

It now sees itself as the creator and the people who create the information as merely the “middleman” to be exorcised from the user experience.

That’s a perversion of the purpose of Google in my eyes.

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#PARIS must-do...Sainte-Chapelle is incredible. 13th century Gothic cathedral commissioned by King Louis IX to house his collection of religious relics, including Christ’s Crown of Thorns. Famous for its incredible stained-glass windows:
https://t.co/FYbv0aekSu #france #travel

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When in #Paris, walk 282 steps to the top of the Arc De Triomphe. The reward is worth it. 360 degree views including the Champs-Élysées and Eiffel Tower. See our guide on how to do this: https://t.co/vy3CYyLQcM #France