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  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    8 months ago

    a quick summary is that there might be evidence that Google favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality. The author gathers form of emails (not linked in the article) and the background of Google leadership.

    There, that’s most of it. The rest is a difficult read of a rant that’s not always coherent.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality

      That just makes sense. Companies want to make their customers happy, and users aren’t Google’s customers

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      8 months ago

      And the same thing keeps getting posted every few days. If I wanted to see it every time, I’d just subscribe to the damn podcast.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        heh, lemmy has a duplicate story/post problem in general.

        I hope that blocking recent duplicate links is a feature they can add someday soon.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          /r/Europe used to have a bot for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone just goes out and makes one, if it hasn’t already happened.

      • Matth78@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Would be nice if Lemmy was alerting poster that he shared a link already presents in other posts.

  • daddyjones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    8 months ago

    I couldn’t be bothered to read all (or even much) much of this, but it really doesn’t feel like Google search is dead…