wheresyoured.at

It’s a story from April, I tried seeing if it was posted before, however it’s the story about how the advertising and finance team beat the search team into submission by ousting the core person protecting it to pursue “growth” and “revenue” at all costs.

Google responded to Ed, Ed responds....

I should note that I’ve previously — and erroneously — referred to the “code yellow” as something that Gomes raised as a means of calling attention to the proximity of Google’s ads side getting too close to search. The truth is much grimmer — the Code Yellow was the rumble of the Rot Economy, with Google’s...

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11393245...

My brother sent me this today, I only skimmed it but i guess the reason google REALLY sucks now is the guy who built their search engine got replaced by a managerial ratfucker whose previous experience was being head of yahoo search (lol)

Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....

Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.

This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a “service” or a “portal,” but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money. The greatest lie in tech is that Facebook...