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In-reply-to » If you have even a passing interest in what, or rather who is the cause of (not just) Googles enshitification and 15 to 30 minutes to spare, I would strongly recommended reading The Man Who Killed Google Search, or listening to the podcast episode, linked at the very top of the page.

After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][16=][14][14=][12][12=] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17][17=] At Yahoo!, he worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][15=][18][18=] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!’s chief strategy officer.[19][19=]

In 2012, Prabhakar joined Google after severe funding cuts in Yahoo!’s research division.[19][19=] In 2018, he was > put in charge of Ads and Commerce at Google and in 2020 his scope was expanded to include Search, Geo, and Assistant.[20][20=] [21][21=]

In 2024, he transitioned to the role of Chief Technologist at Google.[2][2=]

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In-reply-to » If you have even a passing interest in what, or rather who is the cause of (not just) Googles enshitification and 15 to 30 minutes to spare, I would strongly recommended reading The Man Who Killed Google Search, or listening to the podcast episode, linked at the very top of the page.

@thecanine@twtxt.net I read this article and did some research. Wow! Amazing really how we can build really good tech, then kill it quietly all for the sake of more revenue and profits for shareholders 🤣

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In-reply-to » my biggest fear of starting to work with servers professionally is realizing that no one uses servers anymore and having to do some cloud bullshit instead

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz That’s thankfully not entirely true. There are some companies that are starting to realize that “Cloud” is actually more expensive and so we’re starting to see a bit of a migration back 🤞

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