- Google already put ads on search, thus incentivized to show users the best results. - But this must be balanced with other incentives, like upranking links

- Google already put ads on search, thus incentivized to show users the best results. - But this must be balanced with other incentives, like upranking links that also display ads good for the bottom line. (And up/downranking stuff to maximize its "value" (eg data collection), at users' expense.) - re "best software engineers in the world"; Firstly, Google (200k pax corp with national interests) has optimized itself to lowrisk recruiting, thus having a heavy "careerists" bias builtin by design ("best software engineer" is definitely nowhere near the top priority of its hiring rulebook). Which corresponds to a very low % of mentioned group. Also https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ Obligatory venn diagram here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/GN2Rl.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/GN2Rl.png. ( You'd think ppl such as Satoshi will pass the Google interviews? What about Linus and etc? ) ( Not to mention plenty of weirdos (like Ciro on SO) would be banned from interviews regardless of skill level; and plenty of best engineers are weirdos )