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This was the case when I was at Google in 2008; I’m sure it’s even further fabricated now.
by azinman2 5y ago
This was the case when I was at Google in 2008; I’m sure it’s even further fabricated now.
- throwaway3699 5y agoCan you elaborate on what you saw?
- azinman2 5y agoThat it’s not based on reality at all. That would likely be far to expensive computationally for any arbitrary query to give an accurate number that isn’t particularly valuable outside of degrees of orders of magnitude, and even that is almost never looked at.
- Shish2k 5y agoI’m curious, what are they based on, and is there any reason to have a number there beyond “people expect a number”?
- azinman2 5y agoIt’s basically a random number. Don’t extract any meaning from it.