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The Google search team actually has 3 weekly meetings with the deals team. The deals team keeps them apprised of potential deals they are working on, and then
by birken 12y ago
The Google search team actually has 3 weekly meetings with the deals team. The deals team keeps them apprised of potential deals they are working on, and then the search team tunes the weekly algorithm updates to either boost or penalize the various companies, whatever the deal team wants. Sometimes they are boosting on Monday, but by Friday they are penalizing. Things move fast in the deals team!
Sometimes overall search quality suffers, but of course the deals team is the #1 priority in the company. I honestly don't know how they get away with this from a monopoly perspective!!!
Edit:
OK, people aren't getting this. This is a joke. Google does not do this. I never worked on Google search, but those people were insanely serious about worrying about search quality and isolating themselves from other teams. The claims in this joke are also ridiculous, I thought the fact this was a joke was obvious, but I was wrong.
Sorry for the confusion. I will label all jokes in the future.
- pepon 12y agoThat is a pretty strong accusation. What is your source?
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- tptacek 12y agoI downvoted this comment, but that was dumb of me; I should have clicked through to the user profile. If you're going to write something like this and sign your name to it, you should get some of the benefit of the doubt. Which is what you did. Sorry for the downvote. Also: wow.
- dctoedt 12y agoUpvoted to compensate (I probably would have ignored the comment otherwise).
- tptacek 12y ago"Your sense of humor is a bit of a high-wire act, isn't it?"
- birken 12y agoYeah it was in this case. I've clearly got to know my audience a little better.
- tptacek 12y agoTo the extent it's an audience thing, it's got more to do with the audience not knowing what would or wouldn't be a credible thing to say about the internal workings of the search and "deals" team inside Google. If anything, I'm inclined to think charitably about Google, because my contacts there are on the security team and are uniformly excellent people. I know the feeling though; I've taken similar swings at deadpan humor and struck out, too.
- gcb0 12y agoeveryone knows the good grunts on evil companies. but unless you know the execs, don't go with that. i bet lots of good, honest people worked for Enron.
- akamaka 12y agoI got that it was a joke, but I downvoted you because it's not really funny and a waste of my time to read.