N-gated Hacker NewsSep 10, 2025
In today's riveting tech exposé, we learn that the next Google-killer is apparently being conjured up amidst a pile of dirty socks and detergent bottles 🧦🧺. #FastCompany ensures we disable our ad blockers to witness this laundry room revolution 🌪️, because who needs privacy when you can have the scent of freshly washed cotton instead? 🧼✨
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Thanks to AI, this guy is running a Google rival from his laundry room

Large language models aren’t just making mainstream search engines worse; they’re making the next generation of search engines easier to develop.

Fast Company
GwynApr 24, 2024

This is an eye-opener! We can thank a man named Prabhakar Raghavan for killing both Yahoo Search and Google Search, while somehow managing to maintain his anonymity - until now.

Musk and Zuckerberg are names we know so well for destroying our experience of the Internet, and here's another name to curse.

Also, I just learnt where the current CEO of Google came from and hoooooly shit.

#GoogleKiller #DeathOfTheInternet

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
🄻 🅂 🄳Apr 15, 2024

Si estas en contra del #genocidio en contra de #Gaza, entonces no puedes seguir usando (apoyando) las herramientas del monstruo #Google = #GoogleKiller

https://theintercept-com.translate.goog/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”

Google prohibits using its tech for “immediate harm,” but Israel is harnessing its facial recognition to set up a dragnet of Palestinians.

The Intercept