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Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by IPB 05/17/2020, 8:41am PDT
Their words

The company gets yanked around by Ads the way Azure kicks around the rest of MS. Google's original company purpose was simple - index information and monetize this with ads. Their early projects were based around this, like Google Books. They were willing to to court over this. They won! Then they functionally if not officially killed off the project in the early 2010s and indexing information wasn't a priority. That's also when ICJ started his Google complaint thread and that is why this place is the best.

The division of Alphabet and Google was an attempt to clean things up, but it didn't seem to do anything. The rest of FAANG have been investigated by the Feds too. You get the sense though that somebody is in charge and that there is a cohesive company objective. "Don't be evil" and "squeeze as much money from ads from snooping" are so weirdly at odds it's almost Marxist dialectic. No wonder so many commies work there.

blackwater wrote:

Whatever else happens, the company will be paralyzed for a while. Kind of like Microsoft during the Ballmer years. Even if this investigation fizzles, they will be really cautious from now on.


You mean Google might stop killing projects? Stadia might make it after all!
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Googledämmerung by blackwater 05/16/2020, 3:36pm PDT NEW
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        Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by IPB 05/17/2020, 8:41am PDT NEW
            Hiring by Ichabod 05/17/2020, 9:41am PDT NEW
            Re: Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by blackwater 05/17/2020, 5:48pm PDT NEW
                Ads are obviously the powerhouse by Google delenda est 05/17/2020, 7:23pm PDT NEW
                This post is gold by Vested Id 05/17/2020, 7:43pm PDT NEW
                Re: Maybe they can hire more aberrant geniuses to fix it by IPB 05/18/2020, 11:43pm PDT NEW
                    Almost laughed out loud at the programmer tunnel vision description by Google delenda est 05/19/2020, 4:21pm PDT NEW
                        Re: Almost laughed out loud at the programmer tunnel vision description by blackwater 05/19/2020, 11:15pm PDT NEW
                            Bad programmers, and THE BET by Google delenda est 05/20/2020, 7:44pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Bad programmers, and THE BET by blackwater 05/21/2020, 12:03am PDT NEW
                        Google Stadia bets subthread by IPB 05/20/2020, 12:11am PDT NEW
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