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Ed Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shit (www.wheresyoured.at)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a narrative whose connection with reality is hard to discern

If only there were email communications that all but prove the allegations.

One could instead say enshittification is an emergent and often unstoppable force, carried out by whoever happens to be in place at the time.

Yeah sure, and you can keep pissing into the ocean while you're at it while real people try to fix the problems they perceive.

All roads tend to lead to the same place.

Hopefully that's a place where no one has to read bizarrely dismissive drive-by comments made by people who have No Fucking Clue about what they're talking about and lack any kind of intellectual spine.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

If only there were email communications that all but prove the allegations.

The allegations are presumably true but that is almost irrelevant. The question is what the world would be like in the opposite situation. The lessons of history suggest it would be pretty much the same world as the one that we got. A big enough pile of money in one place will never be left standing. For the article's narrative to mean anything, it has to argue otherwise, and it makes no attempt at that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Ben Gomes is the counterfactual. I get the feeling you didn't actually read anything.

You have a lot of growing up to do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

you might be a fucking idiot

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

imagine if your posts here meant anything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know what you mean. Naming names is good imo but I was rather irked by the way the piece seemingly allows for a good, virtuous google under the leadership of benevolent engineers. It's not how capitalism works, it's certainly not how public companies work.

What particularly confused me is I don't recall google search being good in the years leading up to 2019? I assume it was somewhat better probably, but it was well on its way to utter shite.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It was certainly better, maybe even functional. It has been getting progressively worse up to where we are now. LLM blogspam has made it useless.