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Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by arromatic »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #178
ot1138 wrote: post #76

Phenomenal article, very entertaining and aligns with my experience as a prominent search "outsider" (I founded the first search intelligence service back in 2004, which was later acquired by WPP. Do I have some stories). The engineers at Google were wonderful to work with up to 2010. It was like a switch flipped mid-2011 and they became actively hostile to any third party efforts to monitor what they were doing. To…

I'm really glad the article came out though, it fills in some gaps that I was fairly confident about but didn't have anything other than my sense of the players and their actions to back up what I thought was going on. I and a number of other people left in 2010. I went on to work at Blekko which was trying to 'fix' search using a mix of curation and ranking. When I left, this problem of CPC's (the amount Google got…

How did the slashtag feature worked and what did it do ? It seems like a interesting concept but sadly the site is dead . What happened to it ?

Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by arromatic »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #167
arromatic wrote: post #22

Question : Why larry and brin not caring about it ? They built one of world's best and biggest company and it's dying . Even if they did not care about that , their money is still tied to google stock right ? That should raise some concern from them.

You get older, you lose the willpower and energy to fight the machine They have enormous power, but they are now also up against vast armies of lawyers and executives and lobbyists who will whisper and whine in their ears all day Do I, Larry Page, really want to deal with all of that with my failing health and depleting energy?

What are they whispering ? more profit or please rank my site or i will sue you .

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Post by denton-scratch »

arromatic wrote: post #22

Question : Why larry and brin not caring about it ? They built one of world's best and biggest company and it's dying . Even if they did not care about that , their money is still tied to google stock right ? That should raise some concern from them.

I assume their wealth is not particularly tied to Google stock. Eggs, baskets etc.

Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by ianbutler »

imzadi wrote: post #179
nbittich wrote: post #102

Everytime I need to make a search on Google, I start to feel anxious, already convinced I'm not going to find anything useful about the problem I'm trying to solve. This often means I already tried everything else. It's a sad situation.a product shouldn't make you feel anxious.

I just recently switched to Kagi. It's worth paying a few bucks to get decent results.

I find myself seeing nothing useful on Kagi, going to Google, seeing nothing useful, then asking ChatGPT and sometimes seeing something useful and othertimes being led on a wild goose chase. The general state of information retrieval seems bleak. Reddit is usually the solution for me, even on technical matters now.

Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by arromatic »

debatem1 wrote: post #172
morphentropic wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man they used to drop some awesome stuff: Google Maps, GMail (remember the hype over Gmail invites?), Google Earth... then they just stopped improving stuff and started releasing multiple versions of things and abandoned them all, over and over again. Very strange.

I was there around this time and remember the first time someone said out loud that they were doing project Z because "that's what will get me promoted". I argued until I was blue in the face that it was a bad idea, but they didn't care: they had their objective and knew how to get it. Unhappily, everyone was right: he got promoted and the project was an expensive failure. My two cents is that Google has been consume…

Do you have a link to anything about performance review process . I am curious how msft or nintendo which known for innovation handles it .

Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by maxerickson »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #178
ot1138 wrote: post #76

Phenomenal article, very entertaining and aligns with my experience as a prominent search "outsider" (I founded the first search intelligence service back in 2004, which was later acquired by WPP. Do I have some stories). The engineers at Google were wonderful to work with up to 2010. It was like a switch flipped mid-2011 and they became actively hostile to any third party efforts to monitor what they were doing. To…

I'm really glad the article came out though, it fills in some gaps that I was fairly confident about but didn't have anything other than my sense of the players and their actions to back up what I thought was going on. I and a number of other people left in 2010. I went on to work at Blekko which was trying to 'fix' search using a mix of curation and ranking. When I left, this problem of CPC's (the amount Google got…

What is definition of dead? 15 years later they have huge majority of traffic share and lots of revenue.

Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by grugq »

dang wrote: post #101

Anybody have a better title? 'Better' here means (1) less baity; (2) more accurate and neutral; and (3) preferably a representative phrase from the article itself. "The man who killed Google Search" is too baity. See the 'unless' in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait " Edit (since there are objections): I'm not taking a position for…

"Prabhakar Raghavan is killing Google"

"Google's Death from Within: Prabhakar Raghavan"

"Blame Prabhakar Raghavan for Google's Crappy Search"

"Google Sucks. Because of Prabhakar Raghavan"

"Prabhakar Raghavan is the man killing Google Search."

"Yahoo Search Killer Prabhakar Raghavan Turns Death Ray on Google"

"Prabhakar Raghavan and the no good very bad Google search."

Re: The man who killed Google Search?

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Post by romanhn »

jrflowers wrote: post #147
romanhn wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hyperbole is well and good in fiction and personal opinion pieces. I suppose my, and parent commenter's issue, is that we expected a certain type of writing, but got another. And that's fine. I don't have a dog in this fight, but to me it went beyond hyperbole and into personal attack territory. I called it juvenile because the descriptors lack nuance in the same way that "management bad, programmer good" arguments d…

> people mocked without having full context This is a good point. This 3700 word article titled “The Man Who Killed Google Search” about Prabhakar Raghavan does not contain context for why the author would dislike Prabhakar Raghavan or speak ill of him professionally.

To be clear, I meant the author does not have full context.
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