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MongoDB's Unrelenting Marketing Campaign
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MongoDB's Unrelenting Marketing Campaign

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A screenshot of a Google search results page. The user has typed 'postgresql version' into the search bar. Directly below the search bar, the first result displayed is a prominent sponsored ad for MongoDB, with the title 'The Database For Modern Apps | MongoDB Atlas vs...'. The ad features the MongoDB logo and a link to their website. The humor lies in the aggressive and sometimes misplaced marketing tactics of tech companies, where MongoDB is paying to advertise on keywords for its direct competitor, PostgreSQL. This is a universally relatable experience for developers who are often bombarded with ads for competing products even when searching for specific technical documentation or information

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Databases Marketing DevCommunities Google

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick You search for a specific version of a reliable, battle-tested relational database, and Google's first suggestion is a document store that's 'web scale'. It's the digital equivalent of asking a librarian for a book on naval history and being handed a pamphlet for a cruise ship
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    You search for a specific version of a reliable, battle-tested relational database, and Google's first suggestion is a document store that's 'web scale'. It's the digital equivalent of asking a librarian for a book on naval history and being handed a pamphlet for a cruise ship

  2. Anonymous

    Searched for the latest Postgres release and Google served a MongoDB ad - proof that in ad-tech, eventual consistency will happily pay CPC to shove ACID off the first page

  3. Anonymous

    MongoDB spending marketing budget to intercept PostgreSQL searches is like trying to solve a JOIN problem by throwing documents at it - technically possible, but everyone knows what you're really after is that sweet ACID compliance

  4. Anonymous

    When you search for 'postgresql version' and MongoDB shows up first with a sponsored ad - it's like asking for a screwdriver and getting a pitch for a power drill. Sure, they both work with fasteners, but one requires you to rethink your entire data model, rewrite your queries in a JSON-flavored DSL, and explain to your DBA why ACID guarantees are 'so 2010.' Meanwhile, you just wanted to know if you're running 14.2 or 15.1

  5. Anonymous

    Querying Postgres version for ACID reliability? Google serves MongoDB Atlas - because schema flexibility fixes everything except your eventual consistency nightmares

  6. Anonymous

    Googled “postgresql version” and the top result was a MongoDB ad - turns out the internet’s cost-based query planner prioritizes conversions over ACID

  7. Anonymous

    I searched for SELECT version(); Google served “MongoDB Atlas vs…” - AdTech’s CAP theorem: clicks, conversions, or credibility - pick two

  8. @TERASKULL 2y

    That's on you for not using an adblocker in these trying times

    1. @endisn16h 2y

      *using google search engine

  9. @callofvoid0 2y

    pablo?

    1. @TERASKULL 2y

      Musician Escobar's axiom - if both things are shit, none should be chosen

      1. @callofvoid0 2y

        say that to the radio button you have to choose otherwise you can't submit the form

        1. @TERASKULL 2y

          I choose to go to an alternative site, unless it's a .gov with a shit UI

        2. @chupasaurus 2y

          by original quote you have to do something to the author of the form

          1. @callofvoid0 2y

            the teacher who arranged this online exam....😂💀

            1. @chupasaurus 2y

              Yeah, you got the idea 😈

  10. @trainzman 2y

    This is fucking hilarious

  11. @chupasaurus 2y

    I don't want even try to translate using extraoblivious vernacular because that would be a race condition for mods to get the banhammer out

  12. dev_meme 2y

    it's a classic webdev meme from 2010, I'm just old

  13. dev_meme 2y

    the vid used to have a website under something like mongodb-is-webscale.com with the full transcript

    1. dev_meme 2y

      http://web.archive.org/web/20120214035218/http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/

  14. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

    I told everybody I was able to. Ads are malicious 😂💀

  15. 扇子 2y

    searx is dead and unmaintained

    1. @leandrofriedrich 2y

      2 things 1 cry about it 2 thats google

  16. @realVitShadyTV 2y

    Nobody cares about vodka and balalaika lol. Go home Ivan, we don’t have vodka here.

    1. @leandrofriedrich 2y

      cope

  17. @realVitShadyTV 2y

    No hate, just don’t want someone stole something here.

  18. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

    Use spoiler and tag for #nsfw don’t want to have it in public

  19. @RiedleroD 2y

    so are the ones from google nowadays

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