The Man Who Killed Google Search
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It’s a story from April, I tried seeing if it was posted before, however it’s the story about how the advertising and finance team beat the search team into submission by ousting the core person protecting it to pursue “growth” and “revenue” at all costs.

  • @seaQueueEnglish
    8•8 months ago

    Check out You.com too, their search is far better than Google on a lot of the technical topics I’ve searched for.

    Edit: ugh, it was good. Now they’re shovelling LLM interaction front and center and the original search functionality is completely buried. If you can find their original search interface it might still be worth a look.