[dekhn]

I didn't believe Fox News, I independently verified it by viewing many sources of data. https://www.accel.com/spotlight-on/episodes/google-bard-jack... https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jack-krawczyk https://www.menshealth.com/health/a46149606/a-day-in-the-lif... https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/google-execs-say-in-all-hand... and many google results that point to LinkedIn pages that no longer host content (IE, he deleted/locked his linkedin). I can list many other sites that reference him as product lead for bard. My guess is he's a Director/Product Manager Manager, IE a little above a typical product manager, the lowest level of exec.

As for whether a single product manager has that level of control over the serving product... query term rewriting has been a google strategy for quite some time and I doubt a single PM really can influence the product this way and still manage to launch, but as I don't work there and am not privy to the internal details of this product's launch, I can't really say.

That the product is full of disrespect for the user, that I agree. I don't envy the paeans trying to get promos by associating their name with gemini internally.