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Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I guess, but any usage metric can be similarly growth-hacked in my mind. I guess what I'm missing is: is there a more reasonable metric to drive your business, even assuming you're not a malicious exec and actually care about your service?

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 2 years ago

    Unique calls to the site. If someone has to keep rewording queries, you aren't giving good results. If someone clicks on the first or second result, you're doing well. These are just off the top of my head.

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