<story><title>Google to reduce workforce by 12k</title><url>https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelgrosner2</author><text>I literally only hear that Google search is bad from HN. No one else in my daily life - my family, friends, people out at my gym or grocery store - ever complain that Google search is bad. In fact, Google is still the default for looking up information anywhere. It&amp;#x27;s sentiments like this that make you realize how much of a bubble HN exists in.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, people have trouble using GMail, google home, or ban YouTube in their house for their kids. Next to no one uses Android, etc.</text></item><item><author>ifyoubuildit</author><text>&amp;gt; Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Thanks to those early investments, Google’s products are better than ever.&lt;p&gt;Does he really believe this?&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just biased towards the parts that are annoying and I end up missing the good parts, but search seems worse every day.&lt;p&gt;I worry about using google products for anything essential due to the risk of being locked out with no recourse, or the product being unceremoniously dumped after a year. Chat (whatever it&amp;#x27;s being called that month) is always changing, and not for any benefit that I can see.&lt;p&gt;Their office suite is pretty impressive, but again I can&amp;#x27;t trust that it (or my files) will be there when I need them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobinux</author><text>Haven&amp;#x27;t you noticed how search results quality has changed let us say from 2007-2013 and comparing recent time period? I used to get the best information, websites, media material that I was looking from the rarest sources on the web, even probably rare to find given my geo location. Today I usually get information not by the quality, but from &amp;quot;the biggest brands&amp;quot; on the web. I was surprised that I didn&amp;#x27;t find one specific forum in over 20 search pages, but then I had checked my bookmarks and the site was still running and functional and contained what I was exactly looking by the keywords and other possible search factors. These days I just feel I get the information sources that are the most advertised or well branded, but do not reflect the accuracy of what I&amp;#x27;m looking for.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google to reduce workforce by 12k</title><url>https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelgrosner2</author><text>I literally only hear that Google search is bad from HN. No one else in my daily life - my family, friends, people out at my gym or grocery store - ever complain that Google search is bad. In fact, Google is still the default for looking up information anywhere. It&amp;#x27;s sentiments like this that make you realize how much of a bubble HN exists in.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, people have trouble using GMail, google home, or ban YouTube in their house for their kids. Next to no one uses Android, etc.</text></item><item><author>ifyoubuildit</author><text>&amp;gt; Pivoting the company to be AI-first years ago led to groundbreaking advances across our businesses and the whole industry.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Thanks to those early investments, Google’s products are better than ever.&lt;p&gt;Does he really believe this?&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just biased towards the parts that are annoying and I end up missing the good parts, but search seems worse every day.&lt;p&gt;I worry about using google products for anything essential due to the risk of being locked out with no recourse, or the product being unceremoniously dumped after a year. Chat (whatever it&amp;#x27;s being called that month) is always changing, and not for any benefit that I can see.&lt;p&gt;Their office suite is pretty impressive, but again I can&amp;#x27;t trust that it (or my files) will be there when I need them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gspetr</author><text>&amp;gt;Next to no one uses Android&lt;p&gt;Wait, what?&lt;p&gt;Who&amp;#x27;s in the bubble now?</text></comment>