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amydentata
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ahahaha google is such shit man, i was searching "top films" for a few different years and the little info panel at the top of google search for "top films 2001" did not include Fellowship of the Ring

ahahahahahahaha

you know what did include it among the other actual top films of the year? a real-ass goddamn website. with real, actual box office data

amydentata
@amydentata

Oh hey a related article

Do you want to know what Prabhakar Raghavan’s old job was? What Prabhakar Raghavan, the new head of Google Search, the guy that has run Google Search into the ground, the guy who is currently destroying search, did before his job at Google?

He was the head of search for Yahoo from 2005 through 2012 — a tumultuous period that cemented its terminal decline, and effectively saw the company bow out of the search market altogether. His responsibilities? Research and development for Yahoo's search and ads products.

aune
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how does he keep getting away with it

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daboross
@daboross

i feel like i agree this is bad, but is this something google was ever good at? intuitively to me at least, listing top things seems like something search engines should be bad at in general due to that requiring significantly more reasoning than a text search.

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sirocyl
@sirocyl

oh god this explains so much. yahoo was a serious contender for "better than google at Google's own job" and it cratered so hard they wound up using Bing and dropping search engine development entirely.

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