Piękny opis tragedii, czyli jak chciwość i ambicja położyła Google Search i uczyniła z wyszukiwarki to nieużywalne coś, z czym mamy do czynienia dziś.
Przy okazji jest też trochę tła i rozwoju Internetu z początku wieku, którego znaczna część osób nie zna, bo najzwyczajniej w świecie albo nie korzystała wtedy z Internetu, albo w ogóle była za młoda, żeby w jakikolwiek sposób interesować się tymi tematami.
Na zachętę dwa akapity, mówiące o przyczynach obecnego kryzysu:
"It’s because the people running the tech industry are no longer those that built it. Larry Page and Sergey Brin left Google in December 2019 (the same year as the Code Yellow fiasco), and while they remain as controlling shareholders, they clearly don’t give a shit about what “Google” means anymore. Prabhakar Raghavan is a manager, and his career, from what I can tell, is mostly made up of “did some stuff at IBM, failed to make Yahoo anything of note, and fucked up Google so badly that every news outlet has run a story about how bad it is.”
This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth. You’re not a user, you’re a parasite, and it’s these parasites that have dominated and are draining the tech industry of its value."
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The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story