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Sundar never "took over" in anything but a job title sense. Larry and Sergey continue to hold supermajority voting power over the company's board. The business

Sundar never "took over" in anything but a job title sense. Larry and Sergey continue to hold supermajority voting power over the company's board. The business operates the way Larry and Sergey want it to. I think people want an excuse to justify their previous positive outlooks on Larry and Sergey by claiming something has changed. But Larry and Sergey still sit in charge of an extremely harmful company under investigation for numerous types of illegal and inappropriate conduct. Both had inappropriate relationships with subordinates that should've gotten them both fired, and both of them have yachts and/or islands that are worth more than some small countries.

dekhn 5y ago
Larry and Sergey have absolutely zero involvement in Google's daily activities (I don't think Sergey even comes around X any more, but might still hang around research once in a while). Larry handed sundar effective control over Google when he promoted himself to Alphabet. Even 10 years ago, Larry lost interest in search (it was really sad for the search folks when they realized that). Larry picked sundar because sundar is a robot that makes money, and larry needs that money for his longterm mission.
- ocdtrekkie 5y ago
  I'm not sure what you think the long term mission is, but I suspect taking private yachts to and from his private island is most of it. They may not be day to day involved, but they vote down any shareholder proposals to fix what Google is doing, they're aware of what's going on. And the sleezy practices started long before Alphabet did, ads and search results have been becoming less distinguishable for a decade. And Sundar's claim to fame, lest we forget, is hijacking everyone's browser settings by injecting the Google Toolbar into every Adobe Flash Player installer.
- beeboop 5y ago
  >Larry and Sergey have absolutely zero involvement in Google's daily activities Unless you work directly with one of these three people I don't know how you could make such a claim. Press releases don't count as reliable sources
  - dekhn 5y ago
    I did, in fact, work directly with those people. For a while, I sat near Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat (I have a patent with them) and interacted with Larry and Sergey closely enough to get a fairly good read on them.
    - beeboop 5y ago
      Well I guess I'll just shut my mouth

dekhn 5y ago

Larry and Sergey have absolutely zero involvement in Google's daily activities (I don't think Sergey even comes around X any more, but might still hang around research once in a while). Larry handed sundar effective control over Google when he promoted himself to Alphabet. Even 10 years ago, Larry lost interest in search (it was really sad for the search folks when they realized that). Larry picked sundar because sundar is a robot that makes money, and larry needs that money for his longterm mission.

ocdtrekkie 5y ago
I'm not sure what you think the long term mission is, but I suspect taking private yachts to and from his private island is most of it. They may not be day to day involved, but they vote down any shareholder proposals to fix what Google is doing, they're aware of what's going on. And the sleezy practices started long before Alphabet did, ads and search results have been becoming less distinguishable for a decade. And Sundar's claim to fame, lest we forget, is hijacking everyone's browser settings by injecting the Google Toolbar into every Adobe Flash Player installer.
beeboop 5y ago
>Larry and Sergey have absolutely zero involvement in Google's daily activities Unless you work directly with one of these three people I don't know how you could make such a claim. Press releases don't count as reliable sources
- dekhn 5y ago
  I did, in fact, work directly with those people. For a while, I sat near Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat (I have a patent with them) and interacted with Larry and Sergey closely enough to get a fairly good read on them.
  - beeboop 5y ago
    Well I guess I'll just shut my mouth