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Google is run by MBAs now. This is all they know: how to maximize for next quarter's profits, or profits until their RSUs vest.
by 1024core 3y ago
Google is run by MBAs now. This is all they know: how to maximize for next quarter's profits, or profits until their RSUs vest.
- account42 3y agoPerhaps this is a good thing. Google has gotten too big and to many people rely on it in various ways. If Google cannibalizes itself then noone will need to bother killing it.
- esafak 3y agoSo the world can use bing instead? MS is standing right behind Google.
- rchaud 3y agoGoogle went public almost 2 decades ago, ads have always been their bread and butter. "MBA" on Hacker News at this point is just code for "Engineering leadership is greedy".
- charcircuit 3y agoIf you have a holdout group that doesn't get this new ad experience you can test if this change in okay to do long term. It's possible Google mispredicted how much ads were willing to tolerate and have been showing too few ads. Finding the right amount of ads is not optimising for the short term.
- 1024core 3y agoGoogle has been showing Ads for 20+ years. Did they _just now_ discover that users will tolerate more ads? BTW: it's very hard running a long-term study about the ad load. It is too noisy. And you can read whatever you want to read in such studies.