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Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)

submitted 7 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

because (a) it's trivially growth-hacked by making it suck (b) they did in fact growth-hack it by making it suck, and presumably this was obvious to many involved.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess, but any usage metric can be similarly growth-hacked in my mind. I guess what I'm missing is: is there a more reasonable metric to drive your business, even assuming you're not a malicious exec and actually care about your service?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 7 months ago

Unique calls to the site. If someone has to keep rewording queries, you aren't giving good results. If someone clicks on the first or second result, you're doing well. These are just off the top of my head.