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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by hadlock on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:05AM (#22145475)
In the early 2000s we called this "Jumping the Shark"
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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by Siemer on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:57AM (#22145628)
"Pulling a MySpace" means messing up your product so badly that your users abandon ship. "Jumping the Shark" means taking your story to such incredible heights that it becomes unbelievable. Not the same thing.
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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by sethammons on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:27AM (#22145987)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

Nothing to do with being believable. More to do with being gimmicky and irrelevant.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by gundmc on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:59PM (#22147914)
Early 2000s? "Jumping the shark" is from the 1970s.
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