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

I know what you mean. Naming names is good imo but I was rather irked by the way the piece seemingly allows for a good, virtuous google under the leadership of benevolent engineers. It's not how capitalism works, it's certainly not how public companies work.

What particularly confused me is I don't recall google search being good in the years leading up to 2019? I assume it was somewhat better probably, but it was well on its way to utter shite.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

It was certainly better, maybe even functional. It has been getting progressively worse up to where we are now. LLM blogspam has made it useless.