At a recent all-hands meeting, Google search head Prabhakar Raghavan told employees that the world is changing and they have to adjust.
Wearing a hoodie with the words “We use Math” on the front, Google search boss Prabhakar Raghavan had an important message for employees at an all-hands meeting last month. But he first wanted them to settle in and get comfortable.
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Raghavan said Google’s digital ad business had become “the envy of the world.” He noted that over the last three years, annual revenue has grown by more than $100 billion, exceeding Starbucks, Mazda and TikTok combined.
Does this mean you’ll be using math to pay them more for producing more? (have to add /s)
I feel like anyone who envies an advertising business should probably be avoided, lol
Mazda is such a weird name to drop there. They must have started with Starbucks and tiktok and had to find a third company that made the total come in just under their number.
He’s got a ‘we use pizza’ hat for them
Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.
that’s for that link.
Came here to post it too. That article was savage, and I believe it.
Until we have a world that recognises that the internet is now a right and governments should be subsidising search and other services so that they don’t turn into useless ad delivery systems - I’m ok paying for Kagi.
Thoughts on a self-hosted SearXNG instance?
Or one of the public ones like this (by 1&1 I believe):
I haven’t really looked into searXNG, but it also seems like a good alternative
Coming from the same guy who killed Google search according to this article.
Coincidentally just published yesterday…
Which contains an almost identical quote from Nick Fox (Google VP of search in 2019)
Fox added that all three of them were responsible for search, that search was “the revenue engine of the company,” and that bartering with the ads and finance teams was potentially “the new reality of their jobs.”
It’s so bad that I actively try to avoid certain top sites in google search results, especially when I am searching for review on product
There are uBlock Origin filters that exist purely to filter out certain SEO spam sites from search results. I’ve been using this one to filter out sites that basically copy/paste answers from popular dev sites that just completely clutter Google search results. I used to have one that included things like W3 Schools and Quora but I can’t find it anymore, unfortunately.
Kagi has domain filtering built in
I only use maps and youtube from google nowadays. The rest are shit
YouTube is shit too, they’re just the only game in town
True
I’m worried that Maps will be hit by the enshittification next. We need a good quality maps alternative. OpenStreetMap seems ok, but it lacks a few features, including trip planning.
remember all those adorable puff piece articles about the adult playgrounds for google employees?
They still exist at some companies, they’re just a lot less common than they used to be.
100 hour weeks to 120 hour weeks.
I hope those engineers are getting double bonus equity or something. 100 hour weeks is “you live in the office and all you do is work”. I’ve done 100 hour weeks in my game crunch days. It’s impossible to maintain a personal life.
I cannot imagine anyone being productive at 120 hour weeks. WTF is this? North Korea?!
100 hour weeks are not productive either. That’s a mean 14 hours 7 days a week. You cannot stay productive that long and even less so without a single day off. You’ll produce shit 4 hours per day and use the first hour of the next just to clean it up.
Oh 100%. 100 hour work weeks are absolutely insane and clear productivity theatre. To then pretend that adding an extra 20 hours will do more. Man what a waste.
I’m self employed and have been reducing my hours worked per day cause I found I was more effective with a good rest and without forcing myself to work those extra 1-2 hours each day. Crazy hey.
How many people did they just layoff?
Like, your market cap is going up. Sorry. You can eat a bag of dicks.
They are just trying to squeeze the last few drops out of it. Its the endgame now. The new yahoo!
Sounds like somebody needs a short tenure.
Google now: Finding good food on Indian streets.
I like Gemini. It’s easily the best AI for rewriting things for social media that reflects my intent while sounding somewhat like me.
Reads like Irrelevant spam
Ok…just saying, they may be fretting about competition, particularly in the AI business, and I’m just sharing 2 cents about what they’re doing. It really is better than ChatGPT/Co-pilot for this kind of thing imo.
But people can’t have opinions without others getting rude or butthurt about something. 🤣
Now you sound like a shill and a petulant child. Congrats?
How dare you call me a child—
