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Sorry that this conversation is going in circles. At first, I was talking about the culture of migrating to a new system when it supports ~75% of the features (by importance) of th…

The freeze "until after the new year" is just the end-of-year freeze to avoid production breakage when a lot of people are on vacation: it's an extension of the principle of not de…

Not the GP but I think that blog post https://web.dev/blog/webdev-migration you linked explains it pretty clearly? • The people working on web.dev decided to migrate to a common Go…

Well it's all gradual and diffuse; for that matter there are still pockets of the "old Google" around today. My point here was just about, in a big company, different teams having …

This is hilarious big-company shit, that engineer on Chrome devrel team finds it easier to actually just write his own unofficial RSS feed-generator and make it public [1] — the fe…

That's the same as the link I was responding to, and that's why I wrote “relative to” — the Ads team pushing on Chrome for revenue shows Google in a poor light relative to an imagi…

Well, it's a line I've heard a few times over the years, and it's also being stated externally ( https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297 says “The organic (IE:…

More precisely, the slide shows, for an advertiser who is bidding on the keywords “+kids +clothing” and has this sort of broad match enabled, three columns of examples of searches …

> a Disneyland for nerds Another side of “for nerds” is that early Google managed to attract employees from academia. I remember the buzz in the academic world when a professor (Ma…

Many of these articles/complaints don't compare Google Search to alternatives (Bing / DuckDuckGo / ...), so it's not clear whether web search itself is getting "worse" (in the ways…

The link above, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/category%3Apurchase... is just a search of your Gmail inbox for "category:purchases". You get exactly the same results by o…

The terms of service and privacy policy ( https://policies.google.com/privacy ) are the contract. And my rough understanding (not based on reading the contract, something said inte…

https://neeva.com/ ("Get 3 months free, then just $4.95 per month.") (Haven't tried it so I don't know how good it is.) (They have many posts under https://neeva.com/learn that see…

Those are different settings: - the settings for what data about your Google activity is retained are at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization — in particular, "Web…

Just to be clear, this is about the "Report Abuse" button. This page lists categories of things that, if someone clicks on "Report Abuse", Google may decide is indeed abuse, and ta…

Actually, this is not even about distribution exactly, but about the "Report Abuse" button: what this page lists are categories of things that, if someone with access to the file c…

I'd like to comment about this part from the Google blog: > By ensuring that the ecosystem can support their businesses […] we can all ensure that free access to content continues.…

As data, here is a list of each year's top-ranked student in the IIT "joint entrance exam" (JEE) since 1979, and what they're doing now: https://dev.studentgiri.com/last-38-years-i…