Matt PotterOct 22, 2024

This dismantling of Google’s downward trajectory and Prabhakar Raghavan’s key part in it, is maybe the most elegant thing I have read in months.

When will business leaders understand, you can sell off trust precisely once.

Great work, @Zitron

#google #prabhakarraghavan #googlegemini #search #siliconvalley #alphabet

https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Requiem for Raghavan

Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn't mean anything. The most notorious example of this is

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pablolarahOct 21, 2024

🟠🔵 Requiem for Raghavan

by Ed Zitron @WheresYourEdAt_rss @EdZitron
#PrabhakarRaghavan #Google #GoogleSearch

https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/

Requiem for Raghavan

Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn't mean anything. The most notorious example of this is

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Mathew ThomasOct 18, 2024
#PrabhakarRaghavan #ChiefTechnologist #Google
New position for him
Ph.D. from #UCBerkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
B. Tech from #IITMadras
Member of the #NationalAcademyofEngineering
Fellow of the #ACM and #IEEE
Former editor in chief for the #Journal of the #ACM
Former Consulting Professor of Computer Science at #StanfordUniversity
In 2009, Laurea honoris causa from the #UniversityofBologna.
Formerly with #YahooLabs, #Verity and #IBM
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/meet-prabhakar-raghavan-google-s-new-chief-technologist/ar-AA1suj4w?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=91458598798e4404aa57ae95df0ae65e&ei=9
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CEOTECH.ITOct 17, 2024

Google riorganizza Gemini, Assistant e Search
#AI #Android #DeepMind #Gemini #Google #GoogleAssistant #GooglePixel #GoogleSearch #IntelligenzaArtificiale #NickFox #Notizie #Novità #PrabhakarRaghavan #Riorganizzazione #SundarPichai #Tecnologia

https://www.ceotech.it/google-riorganizza-gemini-assistant-e-search/

Google riorganizza Gemini, Assistant e Search

Google annuncia una riorganizzazione dei team AI, unendo Gemini a Google DeepMind e spostando Assistant su Platforms & Devices. Ecco i dettagli.Sundar P

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Piotr "Mikołaj" Mikołajski 🐉May 24, 2024

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."

🌐 https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
#️⃣ #Google #GoogleSearch #RotEconomy #greed #idiocy #SundarPichai #PrabhakarRaghavan #BenGomes

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

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Show threadArnoMay 5, 2024
@pluralistic reading through Ed Zitron’s post is truly sickening. How this #prabhakarraghavan kills off two search engines is an excellent example of poor vetting of candidates during the recruitment process. #failingup indeed
Show threadbs2Apr 26, 2024
Might be a general pattern?
> .. 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.
#PrabhakarRaghavan #GoogleManagement
Aubreader MastoApr 24, 2024

The Man Who Killed Google Search

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

#enshittification #Google #PrabhakarRaghavan

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

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