The company’s current senior vice president is the mind behind the Google search disaster
Many users have pointed out in recent years that Google searches have suffered a major setback. Although the company makes continuous efforts with the intention of implementing algorithms that improve results, these not only do not work, but They are leaving room for poor quality content. And, according to a recent article, it seems that we already have the name and surname of the person responsible for this situation: Prabhakar Raghavan.
How to collect TechSpot in a recent publication, Edward Zitron He is the author of the article “The man who killed Google Search”. In it, he tells a story that began in 2019 and that, in his words, led to him confronting Prabhakar Raghavan, director of the Google ads team at that time, and Ben Gomes, person in charge of the search team. And, while the second pointed out that the most important thing was the user experience, the first advocated profitability and the ability to obtain benefitsa situation that condemned to Google searches.
He already ran Yahoo 20 years ago
Thus, Zitron assures that this was the turning point in the quality from Google Search. Apparently, the North American firm was going through a delicate moment, since the growth of search queries was below forecast. Therefore, a corporate battle that faced both divisions and the result, as we already know at this point, was Raghavan’s victory and his subsequent promotion to search team director. Gomes, for his part, now acts as senior vice president of the Education division at Google.
However, the most curious thing is the past of the current Google search director. As Zitron points out, Raghavan was at the head of Yahoo Search in the 2000s. It is clear that, at this point, Yahoo is far from the impact that Google has despite being an equally popular option a few decades ago. Be that as it may, the current situation of Google searches is critical, since many users point out that the results it returns are increasingly worst.
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