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T3rribl3Gam3D3v t1_itt063d wrote

Replying to WhiteAndNerdy85 (#231,163)

Actually, these are select choices by Google.

Check the score of college A vs college B. The only thing that ever shows up is men's basketball or men's football...even if there wasn't a game between the schools in the past few months. It'll just find the most recent. This is a conscious decision by Google engineers

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IAmTaka_VG t1_itt9gnp wrote

Pichai is the worst CEO Google and FAANG has ever had. It's jaw dropping how Google was one of the few tech companies to not absolutely explode in terms of growth given the insane move towards online.

Google has not launched a successful product since arguably the Pixel and that is meh at best. Everything they've created since Gmail has been absolutely out performed by other companies.

They are a titan and basically control the web and they can't do anything but continue to make search worse and jam ML into every little fucking thing.

He will be the downfall of Google and is an awful CEO.

What CEO hires 37,000 people and then proclaims we need to look at spending. How the fuck is this not resolved top down. I'm at a loss for words how badly Google has fucked up their position over the last 10 years compared to Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple.

Google is constantly playing catch up.

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9-11GaveMe5G t1_ittd4kf wrote

Replying to T3rribl3Gam3D3v (#231,312)

I'll explain it slow for you: when you search "college A college B basketball" the results are heavily weighted by what previous searchers ended up clicking on. So if more people clicked on the men's result than did the womens, or other things instead of women's, women's gets demoted in ranking comparatively. Men's sports being more popular is just reality

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Kwolf23 t1_ittjgiw wrote

Replying to T3rribl3Gam3D3v (#230,690)

Don’t know why people are downvoting you. You are right. Look at the example of Google Translate translating gender neutral languages with obvious biases. (This problem has been fixed since.)

AI and algorithms are written by people, and people tend to have biases.

If someone can explain why this claim is being downvoted, I’d be interested to get some differing perspectives.

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minus_minus t1_ittnkhf wrote

Is it not clear to the casual observer that the Google culture of launching new products to get recognition and promotions is the direct cause of those products failure? Nothing will ever succeed in the market if the creators fuck off to the next shiny thing after the launch announcement goes out.

They need to incentivize things actually succeeding in the market and not just leaving beta.

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tnnrk t1_ittnsdt wrote

Replying to ILoveThisPlace (#233,089)

Maps is in 2005. Google pixel was 2013, and then after that the next major thing they did was stadia (oof). However one thing I forgot since it’s not really a “service or product” in the same way imo, Google Assistant. By far the most successful thing they’ve released in the last 10 years. Successful in terms of product quality, no idea about revenue, but basically all of they best products were in 2008 and before. Sundar became CEO in 2015 and Google assistant was 2016, then stadia.

So yeah he has one successful thing under him since then. There might be more but past decade, pixel (which is no small feat) and their focus on smaller software products for the pixel have been pretty good. However I doubt the pixel has been a large revenue source for Google.

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InvisibleEar t1_ittnz6d wrote

Google will stop cancelling new products after a year when Valve makes Half-Life 3

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Ok-Wasabi2873 t1_ittrmzl wrote

Isn’t the average Googler only there 13 months? So they’ve already lost around 34,000 of the 37,000 hired.

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ghoonrhed t1_ittzpuu wrote

Replying to tnnrk (#232,830)

I really liked Google Trips, it was great for going on holidays and having everything in one app. And it was made after the Pixel. But can't be counted since it was killed by Google as usual

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Frag0r t1_itu0lzq wrote

Replying to minus_minus (#233,629)

It's so hilarious, I thought they have been saving money since the beginning, but now they drop projects even sooner!

First sprint review: "Oh Noes! We got a merge conflict" ".. Pack it up boys, we're done! This leads to nowhere!"

CMD ~ del UberMessengerApp-v0.001-pre-alpha.apk

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AzulMage2020 t1_ituz5zf wrote

Been in Tech for over 30 years. When they break out the word "granular" it means they are getting desperate. Any more corporate speak and Id be heading for the hills and not looking back.

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barrystrawbridgess t1_itv91og wrote

Replying to AzulMage2020 (#238,156)

Typical corporate speak when companies are desperate:

We need a "top down" "30,000 ft" "360 view" that generates "return on investment" of our "core competencies" to create "synergistic" "disruptors" in the industry using "the dangling carrot" with a bunch of "value adds"

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