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Maybe it's simply a bug, and nobody in Google is motivated to fix it.

by MarkMc 4y ago

zx8080 4y ago
If the "fix" results in less profit, then sure no one will get promoted for this. So no motivation to fix.
- withinboredom 4y ago
  I have seen this play out so many times over the years, “if we fix this bug, our revenue will go down X%” and no one will fix it. Ever. Any redesigns or redacts that fix this bug will probably fail A/B testing unless they account for this bug. It holds back the entire company from making real progress with the product, all for a few extra bucks.
  - galaxyLogic 4y ago
    It's funny it's like intentionally putting a feature that did this would make you guilty, but if it's just a bug then nobody can blame you for not fixing it. Most software licenses say the software is sold "as is", so if there are bugs you can't complain.
    - 6510 4y ago
      It is not like having a monopoly on finding customers combined with not finding customers is going to have any economic effect. It is also entirely fine if IT is leading the US economy where IT is a bunch of guys playing ping pong. Companies can just dig a little deeper into their pockets, customers can pay a bit more for products. Specially nowadays everyone has plenty of money and the economy is solid as a rock. It is the responsible thing to do.
- bzmrgonz 4y ago
  I wonder if there is a way to play with the url submit string, you know, entering fields which don't have a UX selection. I use to do this with FB and Craigslist, leave the search criteria, and change the locale. In facebook, it was more the search string copy paste to groups(this was before marketplace). These hacks should come in handy if someone can hunt them down. Espeially the geo-tagging and the income-bracket (I am sure there is an income-bracket criteria in their big "benevolent" database... lol
  - htrp 4y ago
    There is an income bracket.... and almost every possible interest subsegement look up google ad affinity groups
prepend 4y ago
I remember talking to some friends in Google and but estimated their error/fraud rate to be about 1/3 of ad revenue. But they have no motivation to fix it and no one outside Google has the data to tell.

Maybe it's simply a bug, and nobody in Google is motivated to fix it.

by MarkMc 4y ago

Maybe it's simply a bug, and nobody in Google is motivated to fix it.

zx8080 4y ago

If the "fix" results in less profit, then sure no one will get promoted for this. So no motivation to fix.

withinboredom 4y ago
I have seen this play out so many times over the years, “if we fix this bug, our revenue will go down X%” and no one will fix it. Ever. Any redesigns or redacts that fix this bug will probably fail A/B testing unless they account for this bug. It holds back the entire company from making real progress with the product, all for a few extra bucks.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  It's funny it's like intentionally putting a feature that did this would make you guilty, but if it's just a bug then nobody can blame you for not fixing it. Most software licenses say the software is sold "as is", so if there are bugs you can't complain.
  - 6510 4y ago
    It is not like having a monopoly on finding customers combined with not finding customers is going to have any economic effect. It is also entirely fine if IT is leading the US economy where IT is a bunch of guys playing ping pong. Companies can just dig a little deeper into their pockets, customers can pay a bit more for products. Specially nowadays everyone has plenty of money and the economy is solid as a rock. It is the responsible thing to do.
bzmrgonz 4y ago
I wonder if there is a way to play with the url submit string, you know, entering fields which don't have a UX selection. I use to do this with FB and Craigslist, leave the search criteria, and change the locale. In facebook, it was more the search string copy paste to groups(this was before marketplace). These hacks should come in handy if someone can hunt them down. Espeially the geo-tagging and the income-bracket (I am sure there is an income-bracket criteria in their big "benevolent" database... lol
- htrp 4y ago
  There is an income bracket.... and almost every possible interest subsegement look up google ad affinity groups

prepend 4y ago

I remember talking to some friends in Google and but estimated their error/fraud rate to be about 1/3 of ad revenue. But they have no motivation to fix it and no one outside Google has the data to tell.