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Sobering read on how Google was destroyed from the inside. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-kille

• joe_the_user 2y ago
  Yes, 2019. Without any insider knowledge, I remember a Google update at the end of 2019 where they really went to shit, gone from "don't be evil" all the way to evil It was actually later than I expected it to happen but it seems like distinct enough event that it's had reverberation all the way to the present.
• frompdx 2y ago
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  • Ylpertnodi 2y ago
    >Sent from Firefox Read using brave (ubo on)
  • CatWChainsaw 2y ago
    Every time Ed Zitron is mentioned on this site someone shows up with a hateboner, it's getting super old. Everyone has a bias, it's not a crime to let it show. I know it's Silicon Valley's dream to flatten all human experience into emotionless 0s and 1s but they need to knock it off and you need to stop enabling them.
    • frompdx 2y ago
      I fail to see what part of my comment constitutes a "hateboner". Avoiding bias in journalism predates silicon valley by decades, if not centuries.
      • s1artibartfast 2y ago
        Does this strike you as a source where one would expect unbiased journalism? Does it claim to be such? It strikes me as a personal blog of opinion pieces.
      • CatWChainsaw 2y ago
        Besides clearly being outdated guidance (see election 2024 + "substack is the new journalism"), not even "unbiased" journalism is merely a bland recitation of facts, and there's a world of difference between that, an article with an obvious slant, and straight-up dog-barbecue levels of bullshit and lies. It IS frustrating, beyond frustrating, that Google nuked the web for ad money. The idea that you have to report that by neutrally dictating a string of facts or else forfeit all credibility is stupid.