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The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
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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.

The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then the VP of Engineering, Search and Ads on Google properties, had called a “code yellow” for search revenue due to, and I quote, “steady weakness in the daily numbers” and a likeliness that it would end the quarter significantly behind.

HackerNews thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976

MetaFilter thread: https://www.metafilter.com/203456/The-core-query-softness-continues-without-mitigation

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think this is just because there are a good number of Indian people in tech. Usually it's a white person doing this and we hardly notice their skin colour (because of racism).

India actually has a pretty healthy history of workers banding together in collective action, and coming together in mutual aid. I'd elaborate but my social media minutes are about to run out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

there are a good number of Indian people in tech.

Yes, as grunt workers (myself included).

I legit can't recall many Indian innovators in tech. Even most tech companies here in India are copies of American companies.

Which again brings me back to my question. What have these CEOs done during their tenure other than rent seeking?