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The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)

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Edward Zitron has been reading all of google's internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ's antitrust case against google.

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.

The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then the VP of Engineering, Search and Ads on Google properties, had called a “code yellow” for search revenue due to, and I quote, “steady weakness in the daily numbers” and a likeliness that it would end the quarter significantly behind.

HackerNews thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

MetaFilter thread: https://www.metafilter.com/203456/The-core-query-softness-continues-without-mitigation

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Sundar Pichai

Satya Nadella

Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe since 2008)

Tech companies with Indian CEOs have defined and refined rent-seeking over innovations.

Unlike Brin, Page, Zuckerberg, Gates who had interest in technology and the product, these are just fucking yes men who exist to please the board by trying to keep the line going up, as long as they're not required to take risks themselves.

They'll buy competition, give shit pay to employees, and cut costs even if that harns the company in the long run.

Fuck them.

[-] prowling4973@programming.dev 15 points 6 months ago

Satya Nadella turned MS around after the disaster years under Balmer. Your racism is blinding you if you think that he's a problem - from a product perspective or from profit perspective.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

They also fired entire QA department and crowdsourced it to paying customers.

And it's not my racism. I'm a born and raised Indian who everyday meets people like these. Our culture is fucked up.

[-] prowling4973@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

You talk as though every other company in the west hasn't been enshittified too.

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