Requiem for Raghavan
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Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn't mean anything. The most notorious example of this is
  • don@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    may soon be long since has been

    It’s been so fucking long since I’ve used anything directly related to the goog’s …search thing whatever that I frankly have no idea how bad it is now, compared to when it got so bad for me a decade ago that I quit it altogether.

    The giants of tech have been falling for quite some time now.

    • Pistcow@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The alternatives havent been better.

      Its like search engines all shit the bed 9-12 months ago. Specific pages I constantly referenced and never bookmarked just stopped showing up on Google searches pages 1-5 like they never existed. Lord help you if you try to find anything older than a year or not monotized to some AI article.

      I think theyve finally created a feedback loop of bullshit. I mean Ive tried every search engine and its pretty much the same. Monkey see monkey do.