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The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
submitted 3 months ago by Kissaki@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing.

In one email, Fox adds that there was a “pretty big disconnect between what finance and ads want” and what search was doing.

When Gomes pushed back on the multiple requests for growth

In a WIRED interview from 2021, Steven Levy said Raghavan “isn’t CEO of Google— he just runs the place,” and described his addition to the company as “a move from research to management.”

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

TL;DR: It was the bean counters

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 19 points 3 months ago

Prabhakar Raghavan is Search Engine syphilis.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 13 points 3 months ago

Interesting deep dive and very much worth a read. I'd say it probably underestimates the weight of finance-related pressures coming from the CFO's office, though.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is a great article.

[–] Mischala@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's got a podcast

I'm loving it so far.

[–] rinze@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

I like it a lot, but sometimes I feel he's going to get eaten alive by the character he's created. He should tone it down a notch sometimes.