The Man Who Killed Google Search
(www.wheresyoured.at)
from Kissaki@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 12:56
https://beehaw.org/post/14024138
from Kissaki@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 25 May 2024 12:56
https://beehaw.org/post/14024138
I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing.
In one email, Fox adds that there was a “pretty big disconnect between what finance and ads want” and what search was doing.
When Gomes pushed back on the multiple requests for growth
In a WIRED interview from 2021, Steven Levy said Raghavan “isn’t CEO of Google— he just runs the place,” and described his addition to the company as “a move from research to management.”
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Prabhakar Raghavan is Search Engine syphilis.
Interesting deep dive and very much worth a read. I’d say it probably underestimates the weight of finance-related pressures coming from the CFO’s office, though.
TL;DR: It was the bean counters
This is a great article.
He’s got a podcast
I’m loving it so far.
I like it a lot, but sometimes I feel he’s going to get eaten alive by the character he’s created. He should tone it down a notch sometimes.