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Turns out that making Google search unusable was an intentional strategy by the company. (lemmygrad.ml)

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https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/

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[–] luchuan@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I really wonder what goes through the heads of people designing these awful experiences when they do so and how nihilistic you have be be in experiment review just view the world in pure metrics and sign off.

[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They're thinking "my boss is gonna be impressed when they see this."

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

And we know how Google works internally. Employees have to prove themselves worthy of being promoted by their bosses and to do that they have to submit projects. This is why they do seemingly senseless changes like the YouTube UI that seems to change every 6 months, or completely redoing an experience that worked just fine and making you relearn it. If they didn't, they'd have nothing to show their bosses and they would get fired - this is documented.

You can do super important maintenance stuff but that's not what they like to see because it's not showy enough, so you redo the UI with round instead of square corners and also add a bunch of metrics to the new UI to track how people use it and then they can pull some stats that looks good when they type the report out, and hopefully not get sacked at their next review. Employees are always looking for stuff like that to do because of this system.

Its a bunch of bullshit upon bullshit just to satisfy each other's need for bullshit.

Im glad that on prolewiki at least we design for the reader and nothing else, and I think it shows.

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

The feeling that your job is shit, since your manager is pushing that shit feature to appease the corporate execs who doesn't care about your personal opinion, but you have to do it because it pays your bills, and your family depends on you. At least until you find another job with decent pay.

We live in capitalism, so we workers are alienated from the products of our labor.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Yobs that pay better than Google are not that easy to come by, especially these days.