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Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck::"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 135 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Search doesn’t suck because people aren’t working to make it better.

Search was working great for years. Search sucks because they are fucking it with SEO and ads, and they like it that way because they make more money.

So whoever they are firing for whatever reason has nothing to do with their shitty search.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 30 points 10 months ago

If they wanted to make search better they'd cut the ad department not the search improvement department. That's not where the money-extracting is though.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google is fucking it with SEO? How does that work?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They allow (and encourage) people to game the algorithm.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago