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Google seems to have forgotten this and now thinks its some kind of design company. Everything with the exception of adwords and analytics it has applied materi

by us0r 9y ago

Google seems to have forgotten this and now thinks its some kind of design company. Everything with the exception of adwords and analytics it has applied material to is now garbage. News use to be my default homepage but surprisingly MSN gives me a much better product with more then 4 stories on the page on 32" monitors.

tosser350 9y ago
Google seems to care more about manipulating the masses than they do performance/profit. The fact they admit to passing over objectively better candidates to hit quotas proves this. I'd say what you mention is probably a side effect of that.
- golfer 9y ago
  "admit to passing over objectively better candidates" I'd love to see your citation on that claim.
  - quuquuquu 9y ago
    The poster is maybe referring to James Damore's interview with Joe Rogan, where he claims that Google executives admit to diversity procedures in hiring. Disclaimer: I have no opinion on this topic. I am merely speculating the potential source of info.
srean 9y ago
Fully agreed. I miss the Google of the “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” era. Google Plus could have been fine if it wasn't rammed down user's throats. But no, every product had to integrate with it, had to look like it .... because ... Steve Jobs said so ? Then came Vic Gundotra with all the high craftsmanship of political empire building maneuvering and little else. Probably broke the original internal culture if it had survived till then (not sure).
luckydude 9y ago
The new google news page is awful. It's classic user interface designer making stuff pretty with no thought on how to display news. The old page was much better, it was denser. I friggin hate Google news now and am looking for a better news source. I'm not loving text only, I'd be happy with a text only top level and then text & pics for the stories. I'll check out MSN.
- jonesnc 9y ago
  https://theoldgnews.com https://theoldgnews.com Old Google News clone.
  - luckydude 9y ago
    Wow, awesome. Is there a paypal link where I can donate to support this? Or some other way?

by us0r 9y ago

tosser350 9y ago

Google seems to care more about manipulating the masses than they do performance/profit. The fact they admit to passing over objectively better candidates to hit quotas proves this. I'd say what you mention is probably a side effect of that.

golfer 9y ago
"admit to passing over objectively better candidates" I'd love to see your citation on that claim.
- quuquuquu 9y ago
  The poster is maybe referring to James Damore's interview with Joe Rogan, where he claims that Google executives admit to diversity procedures in hiring. Disclaimer: I have no opinion on this topic. I am merely speculating the potential source of info.

srean 9y ago

Fully agreed. I miss the Google of the “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” era. Google Plus could have been fine if it wasn't rammed down user's throats. But no, every product had to integrate with it, had to look like it .... because ... Steve Jobs said so ? Then came Vic Gundotra with all the high craftsmanship of political empire building maneuvering and little else. Probably broke the original internal culture if it had survived till then (not sure).

luckydude 9y ago

The new google news page is awful. It's classic user interface designer making stuff pretty with no thought on how to display news. The old page was much better, it was denser. I friggin hate Google news now and am looking for a better news source. I'm not loving text only, I'd be happy with a text only top level and then text & pics for the stories. I'll check out MSN.

jonesnc 9y ago
https://theoldgnews.com https://theoldgnews.com Old Google News clone.
- luckydude 9y ago
  Wow, awesome. Is there a paypal link where I can donate to support this? Or some other way?