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Why would it be surprising when the product is complex snd huge?
by Dma54rhs 5y ago
Why would it be surprising when the product is complex snd huge?
- anonu 5y agoI don't believe that a successful product operates in some magical realm where the operators just don't know how it works. I'm sure it's complex but it's probably very well laid out and managed complexity. An opaque system cannot be changed or improved upon. But yet, we see that Google Search changes every now and then with different methods of indexing and new features that bring relevant content to the top. Its evolving, which means that there are people who understand the system enough to effect change.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI have never worked in a place where anyone knew everything about how the product worked. Google Search has been getting worse rapidly. I get more and more irrelevant ads crowding out the organic results, and more and more results that simply ignore my search terms. Nowadays I only use Google Search if I haven't found what I'm looking for by result-page-3 on DDG; and that usually doesn't help. I think the people at Goo that want search to be "the bestest" possible, are now in the passenger seat; the driver is obviously advertising. Wouldn't it be nice if "different methods of indexing and new features" really brought relevant content to the top? Instead, they seem to make relevant content disappear completely. Google could easily have the best search engine in the world, again, if they cared enough. But I guess money is more important; revenue from pure search: $0. Revenue from advertising: I dunno, $1billion PA?