oshyYou noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose
Turns out that was on purpose
RAK@ocean: Ed Zitron wrote comprehensively on the people responsible.
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
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@raktheundead @ocean @villares «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.”»