Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it

Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by stickfigure on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:02PM (#31424397)

I am not a Googler, but I know some Googlers (including at least one that worked on search) and... Google doesn't seem to work like that? The search team doesn't make take direction from the adsense team.

I think they are genuinely struggling in an adversarial environment. Imagine every hacker in the world specifically focused on your system and the payoff is millions or even billions of dollars.

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Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it by stetrain on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:39PM (#31424834)

I think that’s totally reasonable as far as the organic results go.

But clearly there are also a lot of motivations to de-emphasize the organic results on the search page in favor of ads, “algorithmic answers” that give you an answer without clicking away from Google, and redirects to Maps, Youtube, and Shopping which are revenue-generators for Google.

Maybe that also comes with a budget de-emphasis for fighting the war in the organic results vs surfacing relevant content from these other sources.

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