Incredible polemic which fingers Prabhakar Raghavan, now Senior VP of Google, as being the man most responsible for the self evident decline of Google Search. Analogous to the decline of Boeing as discussed in
Issue 393, this post paints a familiar story of prioritisation of profits over the delivery of the service, leading to the loss of irreplaceable talent and the downward spiral of the product, despite top line business profitability. It’s both unprovable thesis and
rollicking read.