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All this stuff listed: Google News, Voice Assistant, Street View in maps like at best it's thing that were once great but are weirdly worse than they were years

All this stuff listed: Google News, Voice Assistant, Street View in maps like at best it's thing that were once great but are weirdly worse than they were years ago or things you're questioning if it even still existed. End of the day the time for Google pushing things forward are is long over and only huge reshuffles, restructures and firings will give it a chance of still being relevant at all 10 years from now. I mean that top to bottom, Sundar is a joke and just a Ballmer style numbers guy with no vision. Google's AI teams need to start being forced to work towards products that ship and make money not just work towards papers under their names. Rest of the products sometimes the less done the better look how badly Search, Image Search and Maps have regressed since launch. Image search is now inferior to Yandex, Maps can't even find a store you type the name of when zoomed in on the street it's on, instead it zooms out and shows you a different store across town. YouTube is fighting ad blockers when it should be building to fight the inevitable TikTok long-form attack that will be it's Facebook moment. Only thing I can say still works pretty well is probably Docs and Android in the sense that it's the only option for building devices above a certain complexity on.

perardi 3y ago
Google News has been going bad for a long time. But that’s probably not entirely on Google. The news business has been going bad for a long time, and has gotten even worse in the past year as a lot of legacy news organizations completely fold, or operate on an absolute skeleton crew. The meaningful content is behind paywalls. (Yes, I know, that’s a broad generalization, but between the NYTimes, the Economist, WSJ…that’s a lot of paywalled content.) Voice Assistant is a somewhat surprise flop. For a while there, voice assistants were The Big Thing that you had to have. Maybe they saw the metrics and realized everybody eventually gave up in frustration once you realized that outside of setting timers, the interaction model doesn’t scale well.

perardi 3y ago

Google News has been going bad for a long time. But that’s probably not entirely on Google. The news business has been going bad for a long time, and has gotten even worse in the past year as a lot of legacy news organizations completely fold, or operate on an absolute skeleton crew. The meaningful content is behind paywalls. (Yes, I know, that’s a broad generalization, but between the NYTimes, the Economist, WSJ…that’s a lot of paywalled content.) Voice Assistant is a somewhat surprise flop. For a while there, voice assistants were The Big Thing that you had to have. Maybe they saw the metrics and realized everybody eventually gave up in frustration once you realized that outside of setting timers, the interaction model doesn’t scale well.