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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by lacker »

aazaa wrote: post #20

Buried in a paragraph 2/3 of the way down: > ... Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. ... Not knowing the internals of Google, it seems as if this is the announcement that Page and Brin are stepping down. Is this correct? If so, what an incredibly subtle way to announce a high-profile pair of resignations.

Yes, this is the announcement that Page and Brin are stepping down.

I wouldn't really call it "incredibly subtle" - most similar announcements are wrapped in a bunch of corporate language as well. This is a pretty standard way to announce this sort of thing.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by the_watcher »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #26
michaelhoffman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google had that reputation wayyyyyy before Sundar was CEO.

Sundar became CEO in 2004. Google didn't start becoming evil in, I would say, 2008 or 2009.

Sundar joined Google in 2004. He didn't become CEO until 2015, when Eric Schmidt stepped down.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by savanaly »

ixtli wrote: post #22

> Nonetheless, Google’s core service—providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information—remains at the heart of the company. How is it ok to just say clear lies like this?! Without making any value judgements at all this is blatantly false. The ranking algorithms specifically encode a bias into search results. This is actually explicitly what users want, too! To be clear this is distressing to me because ve…

Don't be too pedantic. By your definition, what even is unbiased? A list of all the sites on the web, A to Z? Words are what we make of them, and there's clearly some distinction between Google and, say, Baidu that is entirely appropriate to capture with the word "unbiased".

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by nemothekid »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #26
michaelhoffman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google had that reputation wayyyyyy before Sundar was CEO.

Sundar became CEO in 2004. Google didn't start becoming evil in, I would say, 2008 or 2009.

Sundar became CEO in 2015.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by lacker »

notJim wrote: post #40
lacker wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a former Googler who stays in touch, there doesn't seem to be structural discontent emerging in staff. There were a few news stories about people complaining, but Google employs about 100,000 people, so any news story involving less than 1000 of them being unhappy can't really count as "structural discontent".

Okay, what about 20,000 of them? https://www.vox.com/2019/4/23/18512542/google-employee-walko...

The walkout referred to was over a year ago, so I wouldn't call that discontent "emerging". If anything, that demonstrates that discontent is diminishing, because there hasn't been another similar walkout.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by morei »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #26
michaelhoffman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google had that reputation wayyyyyy before Sundar was CEO.

Sundar became CEO in 2004. Google didn't start becoming evil in, I would say, 2008 or 2009.

Did you mean to say 2015? (Sundar become CEO about October 2015)

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by enitihas »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #26
michaelhoffman wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google had that reputation wayyyyyy before Sundar was CEO.

Sundar became CEO in 2004. Google didn't start becoming evil in, I would say, 2008 or 2009.

Sundar joined Google in 2004. He became CEO in 2015 I think.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by raldi »

aazaa wrote: post #20

Buried in a paragraph 2/3 of the way down: > ... Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. ... Not knowing the internals of Google, it seems as if this is the announcement that Page and Brin are stepping down. Is this correct? If so, what an incredibly subtle way to announce a high-profile pair of resignations.

Nah, anyone used to reading Google press releases knows that a subject line of, "An Update on X" always means X is being shut down, and thus, "A letter from Larry and Sergey" could mean nothing else except they're stepping down.
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