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Google provides search that is always just slightly better than it's competitors, the better it is, the lower the revenue, they are incentivised to produce the

Google provides search that is always just slightly better than it's competitors, the better it is, the lower the revenue, they are incentivised to produce the worst (most profitable) results possible.

ramraj07 3y ago
The fact that geeksforgeeks is more highly ranked than SO for any coding question I ask proves this to me. Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions? Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day? I can’t imagine working like that.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y ago
  > Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day? In the society I live in, self-respect doesn't pay the bills. I don't know where you're from.
  - wpietri 3y ago
    If you would like to contend that the people at Google couldn't pay their bills if they had kept search more effective, I would like to see some serious numbers there. Absent that, it sounds like the sort of excuse greedy people have always used to justify profitable harm.
    - hattmall 3y ago
      Can't pay your bills without a job... They are constantly A/B testing things and running competitive teams. If profitability is the goal and you aren't the most profitable you can be on the table for the next round of layoffs.
    - 111111IIIIIII 3y ago
      People without a job can't pay their bills. I think it's pretty straightforward.
  - concordDance 3y ago
    A Google engineer doesn't need to worry about paying bills unless their family has an incredibly expensive illness, they can switch jobs easily.
- shubhamkrm 3y ago
  I have no idea how search rankings work, but GeeksForGeeks is massively popular in Indian tech colleges. This might be a reason for it’s high rank.
- science4sail 3y ago
  > Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions? Not really. Google has an excellent intranet search engine and mostly relies on in-house tools instead of commercial services (see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg). As a result its employees don't really need to rely on Stack Overflow, etc.
XorNot 3y ago
It's the oxymoron of their business: a perfect search engine would show you exactly what you need, exactly when you ask it. You would never be available for advertising, because the search engine would already find exactly what you were looking for if it's a product.

ramraj07 3y ago

The fact that geeksforgeeks is more highly ranked than SO for any coding question I ask proves this to me. Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions? Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day? I can’t imagine working like that.

111111IIIIIII 3y ago
> Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day? In the society I live in, self-respect doesn't pay the bills. I don't know where you're from.
- wpietri 3y ago
  If you would like to contend that the people at Google couldn't pay their bills if they had kept search more effective, I would like to see some serious numbers there. Absent that, it sounds like the sort of excuse greedy people have always used to justify profitable harm.
  - hattmall 3y ago
    Can't pay your bills without a job... They are constantly A/B testing things and running competitive teams. If profitability is the goal and you aren't the most profitable you can be on the table for the next round of layoffs.
  - 111111IIIIIII 3y ago
    People without a job can't pay their bills. I think it's pretty straightforward.
- concordDance 3y ago
  A Google engineer doesn't need to worry about paying bills unless their family has an incredibly expensive illness, they can switch jobs easily.
shubhamkrm 3y ago
I have no idea how search rankings work, but GeeksForGeeks is massively popular in Indian tech colleges. This might be a reason for it’s high rank.
science4sail 3y ago
> Do programmers in Google not use Google to search questions? Not really. Google has an excellent intranet search engine and mostly relies on in-house tools instead of commercial services (see https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg). As a result its employees don't really need to rely on Stack Overflow, etc.

XorNot 3y ago

It's the oxymoron of their business: a perfect search engine would show you exactly what you need, exactly when you ask it. You would never be available for advertising, because the search engine would already find exactly what you were looking for if it's a product.