How much trouble is Google in?
Offshoring so much of its engineering labor at this time seems like such a desperate move Plus considering this article, which I have no idea its validity, gives the sense that there's major structural problems that are beyond fixing. But I'm not sure how much of it is true. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ TC: 300
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Something something, 20+ years of technical debt.
The problem in Google is the culture they created. Everyone wants to be promoted. And the way to do it is to create superficial problems, write phd style docs how to solve them, then try to shove that work in even if it is not really needed and then create a doc how this improved performance. People don’t want to solve some problems because they are not going to have an “impact” needed to get promo.
This "impact" problem exists everywhere btw, not specific to Google.
It's amazing how much traction a rando article gets these days when it seems to confirm people's priors borne out of vibes. Don't get pulled into propagating content with catchy headlines meant to provoke reactions. No one killed anything here.
I agree that it's very sensational, hence my skepticism, but anecdotally, what's your experience been with search recently? For me, it's almost unusable without ending my search string in "reddit"
I mean you say that but every few months for the last 5 years or so there's a big Hacker News thread saying "Has anyone else noticed that Google search is way worse than it used to be??"
They’re a public company so don’t think it’s fair to complain they’re prioritizing profit. They’re beholden to shareholders and not necessarily search or search quality. If they cared about their product maybe they should become private company
google valuation: $4T trillion with a T. yeah, they are in such big trouble