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by xyst 856 days ago
Sundar Pichai is more of a figure head rather than somebody “leading” the tech giant. You could put any MBA school trained flunkie in his position and the result will be the same.

Glad Google is getting stormed by the competition.
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sillystuff 856 days ago
> You could put any MBA school trained flunkie in his position and the result will be the same.

Most managers (at all levels) could be replaced with a Magic 8 Ball, and you would get similar results. Although, in some cases, consistency would improve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_8_Ball

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neom 856 days ago
Here is the thing about Sundar, emphasis mine: https://share.zight.com/7KunAo4K

I always wonder why they keep him around when it's clear as day to anyone paying attention he's... not the best.. but.. that graph somewhat speaks for itself.

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paxys 856 days ago
"Stormed by the competition" by what metric? And no, Substack blogs and HN comments don't count.
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unraveller 856 days ago
Don't forget, power user recommendations got google/gmail off the ground.

I can count on one hand how many legacy brave searches I've done this week because you have to wait 5 seconds for the new summary to load. When I do use traditional search instead of chatbot it usually comes out of respect for the free perplexity.ai chatbot I'm using, I feel bad asking it a legacy question like the acronym for something when i can just highlight>right click> search in new tab.

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