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> There's lots of random categories, but the obvious ones are commercial/product searches where you're looking to buy something. I believe that you believe thi

by duped 3y ago

> There's lots of random categories, but the obvious ones are commercial/product searches where you're looking to buy something. I believe that you believe this while also believing that your metrics must be so horribly biased towards indicating that "ads are good" that you miss the forest for the trees. I have entirely stopped using google to search for products because of ads. It is impossible to research products when the vast majority of what you see are ads for competing products. It has made the signal to noise ratio so bad that I can't actually trust Google to collect information and make it useful to me. Google is the absolute worst way to discover information about products you want to buy, because it is so front loaded with bullshit ads for things that others want me to buy.

meiraleal 3y ago
I google for one app and google store shows a paid app with similar name and colors as the first result, leading me to install other apps by mistake and deleting just after while google still gets the money from the installation. I'd call this a scam to both the customers buying ads and the customers of the play store.
stcroixx 3y ago
It's this failure to engage with reality that will be their downfall. Hubris is at the root of it really, reinforced by the way they hire.
- azemetre 3y ago
  I always wondered if the rise of ds&a/leetcode style interviews often hurt these companies more than helped? You are definitely screening for a certain type of engineer when hiring this way, especially when you want to hire 10,000 of them. You're basically filtering people who care more about optimizing their career than wanting to make a good product (nothing wrong with putting your career first, but you can't have the entire company made up of these people), but then again all the incentives at these companies reward short term thinking so it's probably beyond the interview level. Either way there needs to be way more competition in the entire tech space in all sectors. Competition would solve a lot of these issues if Google was forced to break up Chrome, Search, Ads, Android, and YouTube; same for the other big tech co's too. This amount of consolidation is bad for everyone.

by duped 3y ago

meiraleal 3y ago

I google for one app and google store shows a paid app with similar name and colors as the first result, leading me to install other apps by mistake and deleting just after while google still gets the money from the installation. I'd call this a scam to both the customers buying ads and the customers of the play store.

stcroixx 3y ago

It's this failure to engage with reality that will be their downfall. Hubris is at the root of it really, reinforced by the way they hire.

azemetre 3y ago
I always wondered if the rise of ds&a/leetcode style interviews often hurt these companies more than helped? You are definitely screening for a certain type of engineer when hiring this way, especially when you want to hire 10,000 of them. You're basically filtering people who care more about optimizing their career than wanting to make a good product (nothing wrong with putting your career first, but you can't have the entire company made up of these people), but then again all the incentives at these companies reward short term thinking so it's probably beyond the interview level. Either way there needs to be way more competition in the entire tech space in all sectors. Competition would solve a lot of these issues if Google was forced to break up Chrome, Search, Ads, Android, and YouTube; same for the other big tech co's too. This amount of consolidation is bad for everyone.