These emails — which I encourage you to look up — tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money. This is what I mean when I talk about the Rot Economy — the illogical, product-destroying mindset that turns the products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company’s intentions to get the service you want.
Edward Zitron
Quite the read.
That site requires some serius ad-blocking and content filtering to be readable..
Yeah, that article explains a lot. However, I think its a gross over simplification of business realties. Do you want to produce the best search ever, or the one that maximizes revenue? Or something in between? What do you do with the revenue you generate? Are you using it to fund other useful things for others, or are you using it to buy back stock and bonuses for execs? Who’s say is it what a company does with their products and revenue?
What rules and regulations should be in place to reduce barriers to entry to reduce unnecessary monopolies?
The whole thing kind of out lies what has happened with Google over the years, from the build great new products, don’t be evil, no management, all engineers, no lobbyists, no lawyers start, to what ever it is today.
Its tough and weighty subjects. I’d love to have more experts expand upon them without careening to one easy absolute answer or the other.
Bill Shooter of Bul,
+1 great post
For better or worse this is the natural conclusion of the “greed is good” philosophy.