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anyone know what google was thinking when they got rid of google now in favour of the discover feed because i honestly can’t understand how you can have the best engineers in the world and make a decision like that

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the_q@lemmy.world
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Engineers don’t make those kinds of decisions.

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Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
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Exactly this. Amazing engineers can still be run by brain dead management. Turns out being a manager gets you more decision making power though.

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Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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The two aren’t related either. Google Now was contextual information, articles were more of a symptom.

It could correctly assume you need the saved location of your card when you got up after sitting for a while at a restaurant. That kind of stuff.

The discover feed is more the reddit default frontpage. Completely different idea.

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essteeyou@lemmy.world
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“How can we make more money?”

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manmikey@lemmy.world
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I recently started getting ads on my discover feed, it was the last Google thing to be ad free, it used to be a good selection of my interests and local news, I’ve turned it off now as it’s full of irrelevant crap and adverts.

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