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Re:Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image by darth_avocado on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:47PM (#45367372)
I think there’s a middle ground between not making any money by not showing ads and plastering half the page with ads in a way that almost renders the product useless. I’m sure this was a result of a long list of promo packets that incrementally kept adding 0.01% increases to the ad impressions.
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Re:Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image by eru on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @10:40PM (#45368722)
Just one facet of what we call 'promotion oriented programming' (or promotion oriented design).

Google's promotion guidelines used to include that if you want to get a promotion on a technical track, you have to demonstrate a mastery of complexity. Cue the unnecessary complexity in some projects meant to get the author promoted.

(They might still include that requirement. I don't know. I haven't worked at Google in nearly a decade.)

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