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Just to be put the record straight: Google is an advertising company with hobbies. And like for many of us hobbies change over time, so do Google's hobbies. T
by ExoticPearTree 3y ago
Just to be put the record straight: Google is an advertising company with hobbies.
And like for many of us hobbies change over time, so do Google's hobbies.
There's somewhere a website with all the products killed by Google for various reasons, some even after a few months.
- danhodgins 3y ago@ExoticPearTree - "Google is an advertising company with hobbies." This should be Google's mission, purpose, values and tagline.
- justin_oaks 3y agoThe website you're referring to: https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
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- gurchik 3y agoI've always wanted to ask, how do engineers who work at Google think about this? I want to work at a company where I feel like I'm making the lives of our users better. I'm sure this is true for lots of users of Google products, but there are also thousands or tens of thousands of people who have had serious real life impacts because of it. You can see many of them in this thread: AdSense businesses getting shut down, Youtube content creators getting banned for mysterious reasons. I try to work at companies that believe these problems to be unacceptable to even 1 person. While that goal may not always be possible, I would not be comfortable with anything less than an immediate resolution and a postmortem to prevent it from happening again. Is this also true at Google? I don't know anyone at Google to ask.
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoI think it's the same for everyone company: as long as the pay is good with perks and benefits you don't really care what you code on. And if you drink the company kool-aid, you believe you're doing people a favor.