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The man who killed Google Search?

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Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by bsimpson »

swiftcoder wrote: post #2

> a computer scientist class traitor that sided with the management consultancy sect Well if that ain't the purdiest turn of phrase

It gets better:

> a management consultant wearing an engineer costume

> his expertise lies primarily in “failing up,” ascending through the ranks of technology on the momentum from the explosions he caused

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Post by skilled »

Google is doing something similar now[0], both from a searchers and a site owners perspective.

Barry Schwartz regularly posts Google updates on his site[1], for over a decade no less. Since August 2023, those updates have been reaching the 500 mean comment range with many updates reaching 700-900 comment range. And this has been happening for 8 straight months!

People have been robbed of their livelihoods and many have caught strays, with the culprit being that Reddit, Quora, and LinkedIn have tripled/doubled their traffic.

I just don’t understand why Google can’t create a Discussions panel and let people decide what they want to view as opposed to flat out cutting creators off at the knees.

No content creator thinks to themselves, “let me go write my next article on Reddit”.

Now they are throwing AI in the mix also which is probably the dumbest thing they could have done, but I get why they are doing it.

I hope it clicks for Google soon that they are “fucked” and will never recover users they lost to OpenAI, etc.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067605

[1]: https://www.seroundtable.com/category/google-updates

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Post by frereubu »

seanhunter wrote: post #5

What's the source for all of this? It includes reportage of a bunch of conversations where there's no way this guy was present.

There are plenty of links in the article to "emails released as part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google". I didn't read any of it as saying he was involved in those conversations, they're just conversations that have been made public.

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Post by edzitron »

seanhunter wrote: post #5

What's the source for all of this? It includes reportage of a bunch of conversations where there's no way this guy was present.

I am directly citing emails revealed in discovery as part of the Department of Justice's antitrust suit against Google. They're all linked in there too! And you can even see who was CC'd. It's a little confusing because some of them are part of one big, fat thread that you have to read from the bottom up.
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