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Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh they were always evil. They just pretended not to be.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Once upon a time, when they were the scrappy upstart disrupting shitty search engines like Yahoo and Altavista, there was a moment when they were awesome.

The tipping point was going public, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Going public usually makes everything worse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I miss when they at least tried to pretend.