it’s crazy that you used to be able to look up specific clips from a tv show on youtube. now regardless of your search terms you get 6 unrelated promo reels from the show’s official account, 6 unrelated clips of literally anything else youtube thinks you might click on, 6 unrelated promo reels from the network’s official account, 6 more completely arbitrary recommendations, 6 show trailers and publicity videos of the actors by content mills called ‘pop glutton’ and ‘comedy chunk’ and finally raw gameplay footage of a mobile freemium slots game and a video essay called Liberals Can’t Belive It: 10 Times Hitler Was Shockingly Woke
you know the internet is dying when you can’t even search glup shitto funniest moments and find a single relevant result
our data wizards crunched the numbers, and they discovered something truly incredible: users spend up to 10x longer on the website when they can’t find what the fuck they came looking for
you joke but this is literally what google realised and changed with google search and youtube.
profit projections looked like it wasn’t going to be infinite growth for a quarter, and so the head of ads ousted one of the founders and implemented drastic measures to increase search queries. these measures were: making their services worse. this is NOT an exaggeration. it’s actually crazy how anti-consumer google is as a company now.
The blogpost linked above is made by Ed Zitron, who is a tech writer and pr specialist. The blogpost itself sources and links to emails released as part of court records, hosted on justice.gov. I have read these emails, and in my opinion the blogpost explains these correctly.
Do read the article, and maybe even the emails as well though they are formatted in a way which makes them harder to follow (chronologically bottom-up with no visible distinction between adress line and body).
needed to post one of my favorite fo3 moments: a recital of sara teasdale’s poem “there will come soft rains” by a mr handy doing eternal maintenance for a home which has been decrepit for centuries…daily routine unseen by the long gone family, and the robot unaware of itself as a memorial
