Sorry that this conversation is going in circles. At first, I was talking about the culture of migrating to a new system when it supports ~75% of the features (by importance) of the old, rather than closer to 100%. I…
The freeze "until after the new year" is just the end-of-year freeze to avoid production breakage when a lot of people are on vacation: it's an extension of the principle of not deploying on Friday evenings / weekends;…
Not the GP but I think that blog post https://web.dev/blog/webdev-migration you linked explains it pretty clearly? • The people working on web.dev decided to migrate to a common Google site platform, so that they could…
Well it's all gradual and diffuse; for that matter there are still pockets of the "old Google" around today. My point here was just about, in a big company, different teams having their own domains that you don't/can't…
This is hilarious big-company shit, that engineer on Chrome devrel team finds it easier to actually just write his own unofficial RSS feed-generator and make it public [1] — the feed for this blog is at [2] — than for…
That's the same as the link I was responding to, and that's why I wrote “relative to” — the Ads team pushing on Chrome for revenue shows Google in a poor light relative to an imagined world where Chrome never cares…
Well, it's a line I've heard a few times over the years, and it's also being stated externally (https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297 says “The organic (IE: non-sponsored) results you see in…
More precisely, the slide shows, for an advertiser who is bidding on the keywords “+kids +clothing” and has this sort of broad match enabled, three columns of examples of searches that would also match: 1. (because of…
> a Disneyland for nerds Another side of “for nerds” is that early Google managed to attract employees from academia. I remember the buzz in the academic world when a professor (Matt Welsh) gave up tenure at Harvard to…
Many of these articles/complaints don't compare Google Search to alternatives (Bing / DuckDuckGo / ...), so it's not clear whether web search itself is getting "worse" (in the ways mentioned), or whether the issues are…
The link above, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/category%3Apurchase... is just a search of your Gmail inbox for "category:purchases". You get exactly the same results by opening Gmail and entering…
The terms of service and privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) are the contract. And my rough understanding (not based on reading the contract, something said internally at Google a while ago about what…
https://neeva.com/ ("Get 3 months free, then just $4.95 per month.") (Haven't tried it so I don't know how good it is.) (They have many posts under https://neeva.com/learn that seem to be anti-Google in slant while…
Those are different settings: - the settings for what data about your Google activity is retained are at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization — in particular, "Web & App Activity" at…
Just to be clear, this is about the "Report Abuse" button. This page lists categories of things that, if someone clicks on "Report Abuse", Google may decide is indeed abuse, and take action. So this does not apply to…
Actually, this is not even about distribution exactly, but about the "Report Abuse" button: what this page lists are categories of things that, if someone with access to the file clicks on "Report Abuse", whoever is…
I'd like to comment about this part from the Google blog: > By ensuring that the ecosystem can support their businesses […] we can all ensure that free access to content continues. Internally, Google believes that with…
As data, here is a list of each year's top-ranked student in the IIT "joint entrance exam" (JEE) since 1979, and what they're doing now: https://dev.studentgiri.com/last-38-years-iit-jee-toppers/ I know a couple of them…
Sorry that this conversation is going in circles. At first, I was talking about the culture of migrating to a new system when it supports ~75% of the features (by importance) of the old, rather than closer to 100%. I…
The freeze "until after the new year" is just the end-of-year freeze to avoid production breakage when a lot of people are on vacation: it's an extension of the principle of not deploying on Friday evenings / weekends;…
Not the GP but I think that blog post https://web.dev/blog/webdev-migration you linked explains it pretty clearly? • The people working on web.dev decided to migrate to a common Google site platform, so that they could…
Well it's all gradual and diffuse; for that matter there are still pockets of the "old Google" around today. My point here was just about, in a big company, different teams having their own domains that you don't/can't…
This is hilarious big-company shit, that engineer on Chrome devrel team finds it easier to actually just write his own unofficial RSS feed-generator and make it public [1] — the feed for this blog is at [2] — than for…
That's the same as the link I was responding to, and that's why I wrote “relative to” — the Ads team pushing on Chrome for revenue shows Google in a poor light relative to an imagined world where Chrome never cares…
Well, it's a line I've heard a few times over the years, and it's also being stated externally (https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297 says “The organic (IE: non-sponsored) results you see in…
More precisely, the slide shows, for an advertiser who is bidding on the keywords “+kids +clothing” and has this sort of broad match enabled, three columns of examples of searches that would also match: 1. (because of…
> a Disneyland for nerds Another side of “for nerds” is that early Google managed to attract employees from academia. I remember the buzz in the academic world when a professor (Matt Welsh) gave up tenure at Harvard to…
Many of these articles/complaints don't compare Google Search to alternatives (Bing / DuckDuckGo / ...), so it's not clear whether web search itself is getting "worse" (in the ways mentioned), or whether the issues are…
The link above, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/category%3Apurchase... is just a search of your Gmail inbox for "category:purchases". You get exactly the same results by opening Gmail and entering…
The terms of service and privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) are the contract. And my rough understanding (not based on reading the contract, something said internally at Google a while ago about what…
https://neeva.com/ ("Get 3 months free, then just $4.95 per month.") (Haven't tried it so I don't know how good it is.) (They have many posts under https://neeva.com/learn that seem to be anti-Google in slant while…
Those are different settings: - the settings for what data about your Google activity is retained are at https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization — in particular, "Web & App Activity" at…
Just to be clear, this is about the "Report Abuse" button. This page lists categories of things that, if someone clicks on "Report Abuse", Google may decide is indeed abuse, and take action. So this does not apply to…
Actually, this is not even about distribution exactly, but about the "Report Abuse" button: what this page lists are categories of things that, if someone with access to the file clicks on "Report Abuse", whoever is…
I'd like to comment about this part from the Google blog: > By ensuring that the ecosystem can support their businesses […] we can all ensure that free access to content continues. Internally, Google believes that with…
As data, here is a list of each year's top-ranked student in the IIT "joint entrance exam" (JEE) since 1979, and what they're doing now: https://dev.studentgiri.com/last-38-years-iit-jee-toppers/ I know a couple of them…