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This became so common that "An update on ${employee_name}" was a humorous way inside Google to announce one's departure. Or to joke about it when merely switchi
by puzzle 8y ago
This became so common that "An update on ${employee_name}" was a humorous way inside Google to announce one's departure. Or to joke about it when merely switching teams.
Searching for ["an update on" Google] and ignoring other sites gives results such as
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-hea...
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wav...
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-webmaster-central.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-googl...
While the discontinued product that is still most commonly brought up, Reader, had a quite different headline, probably because that day was a carnage:
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-c...
But you can also find "An update on" for neutral or positive posts.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/update-on-google-bar.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/update-on-google-bar...
https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/update-our-work-prevent-abuse-ahead-eu-elections/ https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/update-ou...
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/better-ads https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/better-ads
Still, it does have that negative connotation.
- wlesieutre 8y agoYou can limit the search to googleblog using the site: operator! https://www.google.com/search?q=site:googleblog.blogspot.com%20"an%20update%20on" https://www.google.com/search?q=site:googleblog.blogspot.com...
- puzzle 8y agoI used to work at Google on search, among other projects. :-) I left it out because there's also blog.google now and there isn't a consistent choice of canonical URLs. It's not merely a hostname change, because the new Reader link is https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/a-second-spring-of-cleaning/ https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/a-se... An even more focused search would be [intitle:"an update on"], which is pretty effective, and you can see different results depending on which site you restrict the query to. Fun!
- wlesieutre 8y agoAh, so what we really need are Boolean operators for multiple URL rules. On the handy operators note, do you still know people on the Search team, and could you ask them to give us + back now that Google Plus is shutting down?
- jrockway 8y agoI used "an update on" for everything. If I was sick, it was "an update on jrockway". If I released a new version of something, it was "an update on foo". The fact that "an update on" guaranteed dread made it humorous in both contexts. I am sure that the author of any google blog post that is titled "an update on..." is poking a little fun at google. Or maybe they don't get the joke and this is the wording that keeps coming up. I'm guessing it's the first one, though.