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The enshittification continues. Nothing good ever comes from businesses desperately trying to protect their moats rather than making their products better so t
by nullbio 24d ago
The enshittification continues.
Nothing good ever comes from businesses desperately trying to protect their moats rather than making their products better so they don't need to.
- stackghost 24d agoThank Prabhakar Raghavan for that. After destroying Yahoo’s search product he failed up and did the same at Google. In reward for making Google Search materially worse in every way except ad revenue, he failed up again and was promoted to a cushy do-nothing role. Everything wrong with the tech industry, embodied in a single person.
- ulfw 24d agoWell one has to look a level up and ask who the people are who hire such people and why
- sumedh 24d agoIf Google's ad revenue is going up he is keeping the shareholders happy.
- bitpush 24d agoDo you have any source outside of the Ed Zitron article (which is highly specualtive?)
- brainwad 24d agoHe wasn't the one who merged ads and search into the same org. The blame has to fall on Sundar, surely. > promoted to a cushy do-nothing role The people who this happens to are not perceived as successes. Everyone knows they are gentle firings.
- fnord77 24d agoit's metastasized at this point