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replyEx-googler: I doubt it, but am curious for rationale (i know there was a round of PR re: him “coming back to help with AI.” but just between you and me, the word on him internally, over years and multiple projects, was having him around caused chaos b/c he was a tourist flitting between teams, just spitting out ideas, but now you have unclear direction and multiple teams hearing the same “you should” and doing it)
replyThat makes sense. A "secret shopper" might be a better way to avoid that but wouldn't give him the strokes of being the god in the room.
replyOh ffs, we have an external investor who behaves like that. Literally set us back a year on pet nonsense projects and ideas.
replyWhat'd he say
replyPlease, Google was terrible about using the tech the had long before Sundar, back when Brin was in charge.
replyGoogle Reader is a simple example: Googl had by far the most popular RSS reader, and they just threw it away. A single intern could have kept the whole thing running, and Google has literal billions, but they couldn't see the value in it.
I mean, it's not like being able to see what a good portion of America is reading every day could have any value for an AI company, right?
Google has always been terrible about turning tech into (viable, maintained) products.
Is there an equivalent to Godwin's law wrt threads about Google and Google Reader?
replySee also: any programming thread and Rust.
I'm convinced my last groan will be reading a thread about Google paper clipping the world, and someone will be moaning about Google Reader.
reply“A more elegant weapon of a civilised age.”
replyLol, it seems obvious in retrospect, there really, really, needs to be.
replyTherefore we now have “Vinkel’s Law”
I never get the moaning about killing Reader. It was never about popularity or user experience.
replyReader had to be killed because it [was seen as] a suboptimal ad monetization engine. Page views were superior.
Was Google going to support minimizing ads in any way?
How is this relevant? At best it’s tangentially related and low effort
replyCan you not vibe code it back into existence yet?
replyTook a while but I got to the google reader post. Self host tt-rss, it's much better
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