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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Are we playing a game where we list the names of greedy fucks who have ruined society? Because I assure you that we're looking at a ration of 10:1, at least, of white names vs. any other ethnicity. And that's being extremely generous. It's all old white dudes.

Stop fooling yourself. Power is defined by "whiteness," it's literally a synonym for systemic power and control. If you're in a position to negatively affect society in such a way, then you're white.

Naming a handful of outliers means nothing. Not to mention that those people have all been furthering the goals of that systemic "white" control structure, regardless of their skin color.

[–] misc@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ah another racist . Why can't you people just graso the simple that some people are just assholes and its just a person and not a race thing ?

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I'm the racist? The fuck lol

Calling out the person claiming Indian CEOs are greedy because they're Indian, for being racist is the actual racist.

Go fuck yourself.

[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I don't think they claimed they were greedy because they were Indian. I think it is more of a question on why the Indian people who have been successful in tech are implementing the profit motive policies and what overlapping culture we share with India that would lead people to that capitalistic goal of profits over product. Isn't that something worth exploring? I think it already has led to an educational discussion where one commentor mentioned the history of worker actions in India.

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