@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoGoogle is killing Play Movies & TV, will only have three video stores leftarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1341arrow-down13
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigodlinkfedilink38•1 year agoThey had a really amazing search algorithm that they used to make ad revenue and then made a bunch of stuff because the engineers were bored.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish48•edit-21 year agoGoogle’s problem is they reward bringing new product to market, but they don’t reward steady stewardship or iteration to improve existing products. That’s why you see Google release multiple products that do the same thing.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigodlinkfedilink11•1 year agoIn addition to 20% Time Fridays they should have had Patch Tuesday where everyone submits a bug fix or new feature for an existing product.
They had a really amazing search algorithm that they used to make ad revenue and then made a bunch of stuff because the engineers were bored.
Google’s problem is they reward bringing new product to market, but they don’t reward steady stewardship or iteration to improve existing products. That’s why you see Google release multiple products that do the same thing.
In addition to 20% Time Fridays they should have had Patch Tuesday where everyone submits a bug fix or new feature for an existing product.
20% has been dead for almost a decade…
And it shows