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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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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 12 points 7 months ago

am I missing something or are we talking about the specific policy decision to make the site suck more for clicks? I'm sympathetic to the argument that there are lots of other contributing reasons for google getting worse and that they aren't really addressed in the article, but the causal link between this one guy and engagement hacking couldn't be more clear.

I'm also sympathetic to the argument that the real issue is systemic (we all live in capitalism), but again, the topic is the specific policy decision to make the site suck more for clicks. sighing about inevitability in response to a very informative article about that decision isn't a method of critique, it's a method of dismissal, and it comes across as rather lazy thinking