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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by nolok on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:23PM (#13446292)
No no no, the two person whose name he knew left after years in the same job, it must mean Google doesn't care anymore about their main product that makes roughly 90% of their revenue !

So yeah I totally agree, be it Google, Apple, Microsoft, ... A large amount of people around here are so used to small team startup represented by their founder that they always feel the need in similar stories to make a cult of personality for / against someone as if he was the product he worked for.

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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by dkfmn on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:57PM (#13447649)
Well, to be fair the stuff that generates 90% of their revenue IS what's pushing organic results further down the page.
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Re:Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP... by tyingq on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:00PM (#13446552)
I mentioned more than just two personalities.

Edit: And, I did mention more focus on ads and widgets versus the actual organic results. If those weren't more important, why are they at the top, crowding organics down? The revenue isn't really coming from the organics themselves.

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