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I truly have no idea what this website is saying https://generalresearch.com/ https://generalresearch.com/

by loremm 22d ago

muragekibicho 22d ago
Perhaps they're targeting a super specific niche. Like somebody who sees WXET Ephemereal and yelps in triumph "that's my quant!".
skinfaxi 22d ago
Why it's Transactional Systems for Ephemeral Tasks, don't you know? No but same here. The other pages lead to more confusion.
- freehorse 22d ago
  My favourite part is the "our customers" section [0], starting with > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation I am not sure if they want to convey what I think I am reading or not. [0] https://generalresearch.com/mission/#:~:text=Our%20Customers https://generalresearch.com/mission/#:~:text=Our%20Customers
  - x0xMaximus 22d ago
    Buyer A is presented with the following rate card: < 10min targeting gen pop: $3 10 <= 15min targeting gen pop: $5 Of course they'll bid saying their 14 min survey only takes 9 min to complete. Buyers try to cheat pricing strategies of exchanges just as much as respondents try to cheat buyers on survey platforms. Both parties can't be trusted and have adverse incentives.
tourist2d 22d ago
It smells like they don't know what they're doing. Had a lol at the mission page accidentally implying their customers are unethical though: > Our Customers > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security ...
- DrewADesign 22d ago
  At least they’re ripe! I hate unripe customers, rife with astringency, sharp vegetal notes, and an unpleasant, unyielding texture.
DrewADesign 22d ago
It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bTM2bjhvOHIzYnk5 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...
- inigyou 22d ago
  I can't see this because I don't have an Instagram account
  - zzzzpknk 22d ago
    replace instagram.com with kittygr.am
    - DrewADesign 22d ago
      Sweet, thx.
  - DrewADesign 22d ago
    Yes, that’s true. Of course, I didn’t put it there, and I don’t know them, so there’s not much I can do about that, right?
  - extra88 21d ago
    I can see it, the Sign Up dialog has a Close button.
rajamaka 22d ago
I think it's a satirical website aimed at poking fun at corporate-linkedin-speak
- x0xMaximus 22d ago
  Wish we didn’t even need one
sswaner 22d ago
“ General Research combines coordinated operations to identify and neutralize foreign actors using technological advancements, international covert operations, and networking analysis as an Internet Service Provider.” What is so hard to understand????
- neaden 21d ago
  This makes it sound like they kill spies.
MikhailTal 22d ago
As usual, the real tldr is in the privacy policy https://generalresearch.com/supplier/privacy-policy/notice-to-respondents/ https://generalresearch.com/supplier/privacy-policy/notice-t... > General Research Laboratories, LLC (“GRL”) is an aggregator of market research surveys in multiple marketplaces for business customers. GRL does not typically host consumer surveys which are conducted by other consumer-facing organizations.... So, just a middleman to give you fake/shady at best survey responses to pad your numbers, so big enterprises/concultancies can have data that say whatever they want. The rest of the website is just BS
- x0xMaximus 22d ago
  Finally you get it. Only exception is that we run our own exchange now to do task bidding so we don’t need to deal exclusively with other companies to middleman. Core business is what’s called yield management (akin to DSP in adtech) where the best survey (is the user qualified for it, does it have the best pay, etc) is selected for traffic in <100ms. I’d only argue the shady companies are the ones paying proxies (like cint.com) and pushing paid user acquisition instead of surveys. We actively fund ontology development for better profiling targeting. but yes, big enterprises/consultancies can use and interpret the collected data however they want, not our responsibility and we have no legal rights over it anyway
internet_points 22d ago
> Our Customers > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security for reaching global audiences and securing respondent reliability at any scale. wat
- yellow_lead 21d ago
  Misplaced modifier? Wow

I truly have no idea what this website is saying https://generalresearch.com/ https://generalresearch.com/

by loremm 22d ago

I truly have no idea what this website is saying https://generalresearch.com/ https://generalresearch.com/

Perhaps they're targeting a super specific niche. Like somebody who sees WXET Ephemereal and yelps in triumph "that's my quant!".

skinfaxi 22d ago

Why it's Transactional Systems for Ephemeral Tasks, don't you know? No but same here. The other pages lead to more confusion.

freehorse 22d ago
My favourite part is the "our customers" section [0], starting with > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation I am not sure if they want to convey what I think I am reading or not. [0] https://generalresearch.com/mission/#:~:text=Our%20Customers https://generalresearch.com/mission/#:~:text=Our%20Customers
- x0xMaximus 22d ago
  Buyer A is presented with the following rate card: < 10min targeting gen pop: $3 10 <= 15min targeting gen pop: $5 Of course they'll bid saying their 14 min survey only takes 9 min to complete. Buyers try to cheat pricing strategies of exchanges just as much as respondents try to cheat buyers on survey platforms. Both parties can't be trusted and have adverse incentives.

tourist2d 22d ago

It smells like they don't know what they're doing. Had a lol at the mission page accidentally implying their customers are unethical though: > Our Customers > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security ...

DrewADesign 22d ago
At least they’re ripe! I hate unripe customers, rife with astringency, sharp vegetal notes, and an unpleasant, unyielding texture.

DrewADesign 22d ago

It kind of reminds me of those fake tech ads those guys put up in the NYC subway: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bTM2bjhvOHIzYnk5 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZacltqHMjT/?img_index=8&igsi=bT...

inigyou 22d ago
I can't see this because I don't have an Instagram account
- zzzzpknk 22d ago
  replace instagram.com with kittygr.am
  - DrewADesign 22d ago
    Sweet, thx.
- DrewADesign 22d ago
  Yes, that’s true. Of course, I didn’t put it there, and I don’t know them, so there’s not much I can do about that, right?
- extra88 21d ago
  I can see it, the Sign Up dialog has a Close button.

rajamaka 22d ago

I think it's a satirical website aimed at poking fun at corporate-linkedin-speak

x0xMaximus 22d ago
Wish we didn’t even need one

sswaner 22d ago

“ General Research combines coordinated operations to identify and neutralize foreign actors using technological advancements, international covert operations, and networking analysis as an Internet Service Provider.” What is so hard to understand????

neaden 21d ago
This makes it sound like they kill spies.

MikhailTal 22d ago

As usual, the real tldr is in the privacy policy https://generalresearch.com/supplier/privacy-policy/notice-to-respondents/ https://generalresearch.com/supplier/privacy-policy/notice-t... > General Research Laboratories, LLC (“GRL”) is an aggregator of market research surveys in multiple marketplaces for business customers. GRL does not typically host consumer surveys which are conducted by other consumer-facing organizations.... So, just a middleman to give you fake/shady at best survey responses to pad your numbers, so big enterprises/concultancies can have data that say whatever they want. The rest of the website is just BS

x0xMaximus 22d ago
Finally you get it. Only exception is that we run our own exchange now to do task bidding so we don’t need to deal exclusively with other companies to middleman. Core business is what’s called yield management (akin to DSP in adtech) where the best survey (is the user qualified for it, does it have the best pay, etc) is selected for traffic in <100ms. I’d only argue the shady companies are the ones paying proxies (like cint.com) and pushing paid user acquisition instead of surveys. We actively fund ontology development for better profiling targeting. but yes, big enterprises/consultancies can use and interpret the collected data however they want, not our responsibility and we have no legal rights over it anyway

internet_points 22d ago

> Our Customers > Ripe with fraud, labor exploitation, political polling manipulation; our customers demand the best tools and security for reaching global audiences and securing respondent reliability at any scale. wat

yellow_lead 21d ago
Misplaced modifier? Wow