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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

that "Google made their search results worse on purpose to get more ad impressions" article that's going around is based on an internal email chain from a legal filing, in which an employee mentions this potential approach for increasing engagement metrics... as an example of a bad approach and not something they'd be comfortable doing.

based on my reading, there's nothing in here that says they actually did it. I can't see anything in there that supports that claim.

justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.

that "Google made their search results worse on purpose to get more ad impressions" article that's going around is based on an internal email chain from a legal filing, in which an employee mentions this potential approach for increasing engagement metrics... as an example of a bad approach and not something they'd be comfortable doing.

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zauberlaus

@gsuberland well ok. except that their search sucks ;)

RegressionToTheMeme

@gsuberland Raghavan destroyed it intentionally, just like he tanked Yahoo search.
He's a clown who claims to be a computer scientist, but hangs with the marketing creeps.
He undermined and backstabbed his way to control of Google Search, and trashed it to improve its 'marketing metrics'.
He did everything he could to force people to spend longer on the website, and to obscure the amount of paid advertising the users were fed.
Yahoo search was the biggest name in the game until he got hold of it. He ran it into the ground so bad that they sold it for chump change and contracted the searching to Bing. 🤣

@gsuberland Raghavan destroyed it intentionally, just like he tanked Yahoo search.
He's a clown who claims to be a computer scientist, but hangs with the marketing creeps.
He undermined and backstabbed his way to control of Google Search, and trashed it to improve its 'marketing metrics'.
He did everything he could to force people to spend longer on...

jaseg

@gsuberland I think this way of thinking also tends to anthropomorphize the company too much. When large organizations do something truly bad or stupid, it often arises from bad incentive structures and everyone involved “just doing their job”. I think it’s important to acknowledge that shit like this can happen without any actual bad intent or conspiracy, just out of bad organizational practices and lack of care.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

since we're renaming oceans to silly things, the North Atlantic Ocean is now the Gulf of Dingle.

Map of Ireland. A town called Dingle is on the Western shore, highlighted with a big arrow.
Map with the North Atlantic Sea crossed out and replaced with "Gulf of Dingle". Ireland can be seen on the far north east.
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Michael Hartle

@gsuberland When in Ireland and on the Dingle peninsula, don't miss Dingle (the town), which until recent years had Fungie the Dolphin (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungie) roaming in and near the harbour, and go visit the local aquarium (dingle-oceanworld.ie/), which is quite nice and definitely larger on the inside that it initially looks like.

So that is a good way to be on Dingle in Dingle looking over a Gulf of Dingle.

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