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When princess Diana died in one thousand hundred and ninety seven and elton john, we wrote his famous song candle in the wind, changing the lyrics subtly is a tribute. I did the same thing for the episode about propagate reg van of google, however, when I told cool zone media about my plans, Robert ever threatened me with, and I quote, a trip to the carnival prison and then sent me a low quality JPEG of a gun.

As a result, I will be neglecting to release candle the toilet for the time being. Nevertheless, it's both my duty and my pleasure to reveal the proper aga regarding an one of Better of lines, most notorious villains. And the form ahead of google search was relieved of duty last week, becoming google first chief technologist.

Now it's very important to know it's an important role to follow with somebody's title and silicon valley that if you can't tell what IT means, IT probably doesn't mean anything with the notorious example of air, well, shiny, their digital profit being my favorite, although this ones a little less ridiculous. Rec van has likely been given a ceremony title and the job that involves, and I quote, partnering closely with son up to shine, providing technical direction, you know, as supposed to actually leading IT. If you confused to get full, or just love hearing me speak, let me give you a brief run down of who rebeca regardant is, or indeed was.

Back in April, I ran probably my most well known episode. The men that destroyed the google search using emails revealed as part of the department of justice is anti trust trial against google over their monopolies. Over search, I told the tale of how propagate regardant, then google, ahead of ads, let a coup that began the slow descent of the world's most important website towards its kind of broken half, working shy thing you see today and half of the last few years.

The key event in the podcast was a code yellow crisis, the cloud in twenty nineteen, by google ads and finance teams, which had forecast a disappointing quarter indeed, in response, propagation region, an pushed out benda ms, then the head of search and a genuine pioneer search technology. By the way, he'd been there forever, and he pushed him to increase the number of queries es people made by any means necessary. Now you may think queries on google.

Is that such a bad thing? Well, when you're optimizing a search engine to make people search more rather than getting the search engine results they need, you're doing so that they can see more ants. It's not great. And though it's not clear what was done to resolve the so called query softness that region and demanded was reversed, I apologized. One of the moves involved rolling back changes the search that suppress bammy content.

Google has since denied this in a response to my newsletter, despite the fact the emails revealed as part of the same department of justice trial revealed the Jerry dish ler recovery ane deputy at google lads at the time specifically discussed rollbacks as a means of increasing queries. And what's also lovely about this in all link to this in the notes, by the way, is their response didn't really attack anything I had to say. They just say, oh, it's ridiculous what he said.

They refused to give any true data. But i'm going to quote the man destroyed google searching out to kind of run this down. The much twenty twenty core update to search was happening about a week before the end of the code yellow was expected to be. And I quote one of the largest updates to search in a very long time yet when IT launched, many found that the update mostly rolled back changes in traffic, was increasing the sites that had previously been suppressed by google searches.

Penguin update from twenty twelve that specifically targeted spammy search results as well as those hit by an update from August first twenty eighteen, a few months after bang gomes became head of search, propagate recover an was made head of search a little over a year later in june to twenty twenty. And it's pretty obvious how bigger decline google searches taken since then. Results are filled with seo garbage, that search engine optimization, by the way, ads sponsored content that's pretty much impossible to tell from regular results and the disastrous launch of google AI powered summaries, which produced results that range from hilarious, like telling you to eat rocks, or life threatening, like telling you a mushroom is safe to eat that will kill you.

And I think that propagate regio anzy. Google can be seen as an illustration of much larger problems at the company. Now for the next bit, please take a look at the episode notes and go to tiny U R L dot com flash B O one o to o.

This will be in the notes because you're gonna want to look at the chart and referencing. But i'm really gone to try my hardest to get the most of your out verbally as well. If you driving your car, if you currently prize and open a window to steal a grand purse from my car, i'll get IT. I'll get anyway. When proper ago, recovering took over search in q 3 twenty twenty。

Google is just experience its first decline in year over a year quarterly growth since q four twenty twelve, a one point six six percent declining growth that was followed by a remarkable recovery with double digital year of a year growth just as propagate turn the crews search, resting to a ridiculous sixty one point five eight percent year over a year growth in q three twenty twenty one. Then things began to slow every quarter, or progressively lower growth, reaching in a deer in q four twenty twenty two, when google experiences the mere point nine six percent year over year growth, something that one might be able to blame on the end of the oyun post vaccines spending we saw across the entire economy, or the sparrow's rates of inflation ency worldwide. Maybe who could be something else, right? And you assume big deal worked this out, right? I'll recover as the wider economy did, right? Not so much.

Well, google experienced the degree of recovery in its growth rates. IT took to q three twenty twenty three to hit double digit growth again seven percent year over year, hitting a high of fifteen point four one percent in q two twenty twenty four, before trending down again in q three twenty twenty four to thirteen point five nine percent. The reason these numbers are important is that growth drives everything at google and propagate a rev.

Android, the most consistent growth engine in the company search, which grew far percent year over a year in q one twenty twenty four right up until he stopped piloting IT. The context is key to understanding his I don't know if you could a promotion at the motion or just a room with no door hand on IT, which they put him in every morning. But this title is most decidedly not achieve technology officer or any kind of officer or executive at all.

Google has, for the most part, enjoyed one of the most incredible runs in business history, with almost an entire decade of twenty percent year over a year growth, with a few exceptions, such as key for twenty twelve, a few months after to recovered, began at google, where he started in ads to q three. Twenty thirteen, a chaotic period where google fell behind amazon and shopping at revenue brought motorable mobility for twelve point five billion dollars. By the way, that's sixty three percent more than its trading Price.

And then they saw a fifteen percent year over year decline in pricing for their search chance. Google earnings also lacked early in this period, which was not a lot of fund for google at all. But growth is slowing again, and IT isn't showing any signs of returning to the heady days where seventy percent year over year growth each quarter was considered bad.

Google has deliberately made its products worse as a means of increasing revenue and increasing growth, spawning a trend of both remarkable revenue growth. m. Worsening search results that study exactly when propagate regular ant took the wheel the charm and quoting tells another story too, though the twist in google search to make IT more profitable only work for a little bit before growth began to slow.

Again, recklessness and desperation, but gets only more recklessness and desperation. And you notice the google aggressive pushing into A, I follow this q 4， twenty, twenty two quarter where IT nearly fell into negative growth. And when you went factor in inflation, IT actually did.

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Now, if you forgive the mixed metaphors, google is essentially killed its golden goal search, and now is in the process of pointing its eggs to buy decidedly non magical beans. In this case, I mean, data sentence in G, P. S. With google increasing its capital expenditure in the financial year twenty twenty four to fifty billion dollars, equivalent to nearly double its average capex from 2023年。 Since becoming head of search, reg van has also become the silent leader of most of google other revenue centers, google ads, google shopping maps and eventually german I google ChatGPT competitor, which might also explain why he's now being put in the naughty I chair.

You see, twenty twenty four wasn't a great year for google, and IT was a much worse one for proper aga reef, an starting in february, when german I, their large language model generated racially diverse nuts seas, among other things, a mess the propagation recovered himself had to apologize for. This man never pokes his head up, but he had to. In february, a few months later, google introduced A I powered summaries that told users to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, which only caused people to remember exactly how bad google search got and laugh how the only way that google seem to be able to innovate was to make this worse.

Req van is being replaced by nick fox, a form of machines. Guy hooo, in the emails I called attention to in the podcast, are being talking about told benches that making google search more profitable was, and I quote, the new reality of their jobs, to which Benjamins responded by saying that he was concerned that growth was all that google was thinking about. IT happy, terrible.

Win them. Now nick fox has to quote google CEO under shi been instrumental in shaping google AI product road map, which suggests that google is going all in an artificial intelligence at a time when developers the struggling justice using models, and are actively mad at both the wait in which IT markets them in the way in which they're integrated into google's other products. I'm hypothesize here, but I think that google is desperate and that its earnings on october thirty likely to make the street more than a little worried.

The medium to long term prognosis is likely even worse, too. As the wall street journal notes, google ads business is expected to dip low a fifty percent market share in the U. S.

In the next year for the first time in more than a decade. Which, by the way, was right around where things were kind of bad for them. And google's cactus monopoly over search and likely ads, by the way, is coming to an end. It's not an if. It's a when it's more likely the google sea is a fundamental part of their future growth despite the fact that this thing only loses money and people really don't like IT.

As part of the registrant reorganization, google is also moving the german I T team, the one handling the ChatGPT competent up being talking about on the A I research group, deep mind, a move that might be kind of a smart in the handy A I to the A I people kind of way, but also suggest that there's just this degree of disarray the company. And I don't think that's getting Better in a hurry, you see, recover an was powerful and for a time successful. He rolled with nine fist warning employees a few months ago to prepare for a different market reality because, and I quote, things were not like they were fifty to twenty years ago yeah, back only works on.

And he then would proceed to say that he was shortening the amount of time that his reports would have to work on certain projects according to gennifer A C P C, which is exactly the kind of move you make when things are going poorly. This also kind of reflects things that i've heard from internal googlers, whether resources are going to A I or y're going nowhere else. The same deal with microsoft.

We're in a group delusion, folks. It's not brilliant. But let's get back to the other fellow. Replacing regardant is nick fox, a man who has only worked to either the machinery or google.

And I am not kidding, by the way, he was that machinery for a few years then has been at google ever sense. It's completely bonus. And I mean, this is the kind of move you make putting a guy like nick fox on top.

It's something you do because you don't know what to do. And somebody needed to get fired or moved into the naughty I box, something had to change. And well, IT was propagate.

And what's crazy is that you think they'd find a guy with a history of success with the product that people love that's doing really well, that's making a bunch of money, right? Well, you'd be wrong because nick fox is most famous for running google assistant business, which if you google how customers feel about IT, they hate IT. And it's really just famous for kind of sucking and literally making them no money.

Google assistant is a loss, loss, loss. Y lossy. product.

IT loses so much money like a bunch of other assistance companies like amazon. Lex a losing the more of ten billion dollars. It's ridiculous.

This is the guy who's running google's revenue. I'm scared, but not scared. IT would be kind of funny if google started collapsing. I D enjoy watching or I don't know they could make themselves Better, who knows? Anyway, i'd argue there's a compelling case that can be made that we're watching the slow, painful collapse of this company.

Google was at one point known for making these transformational but loveit products, and then they chose to put people in power to make worse, to make them more money. And maybe what we're watching here is kind of the net result of the world economy. When a rot economist is given the wheel, you get these early pops.

When things are going well, number go up. So far, so hard, number so good, so big. We love number.

But the problem is, if you're just destroying the products, if you're freezing your customers, if you're invading their lives more as a means of making this money, what do you fall back on when growth goes away? How do you inspire your customers when things suck us? The answer is, you don't.

And just like the rest of the hyper scale, google has not had a meaningful new product in over a decade. And its most meaningful acquisition in years involved paying two point seven billion dollars to buy character AI to hire back a guy who quit because he was mad. Google wouldn't release an early version of a large language model in twenty, twenty or twenty twenty one.

It's unclear when that happened, and none, this was subindex let go. But at the same time, it's like, is this guy really get to turn things around seriously? Google is just the company bereft of vision and they're incapable of making money without their mono, and they're just fAiling wildly in the hopes that everybody else shit will make them good, will save them from tradition, or maybe stop the department of justice breaking them up, which is, I think is going to happen, albeit IT might take a while.

now. Google is exactly the month of the sun up to shine propaganda rag. I wanted IT to be this lumbering, ugly private equity vehicle that uses its cooked money machine to demolish smaller players. Except there are no more hyper growth markets left at the throw the billions, and now they left with generate aai, a technology that lacks any mass market utility and burns cash with every single prompt.

I know it's a bit dramatic to suggest that we're watching google die, but i've done IT with facebook, so why not today? And seriously, proper agc Evans time google coming to an end is a sign that they have ve realized that something is broken, that they know something has to change. But IT also is a sign that this company doesn't know what has to change because they put a fucking machines y guy at the top.

And yes, I know he's more a google guy than a machinery guy, but if you look back at the emails, and I will link to the the notes, you will see that nick fox was not on the side of bang games or shashi occur, and that people trying to save google search from the rot. Economist, no, nick fox is as much he's just as bad as propaganda gavan accept he has a worst ten year. Google, google assistant sucks.

It's not a great product that stuffing A I N. I get emails every week from someone saying can do a thing, a google assistance. I don't want to because all i'd be saying for half an hours, google assistant is crap. Google assistant is getting worse. Everyone's mad.

Google assistant, why is google assistance so bad? And the, well, I actually don't have an answer for that, but I do have an answer for who's running all of google stuff now, who's running google search and a bunch of other things. It's the guy who the extremely unprofitable thing that people hate.

That's an also ran of other company shit. That is the guy in charge now. And I just believe that google is falling apart at the seems google does not know what to do anymore.

And i'm really i'm going to tailgate the october thirty earnings. I'm going to crack a beer. I'm going to listen to the call is going to be very exciting because I don't think it's going to be very good at all.

They're na try put lipstick on the pig. They're gonna try and claim this growth in the eye. And maybe I am wrong. Maybe I look like a baLance for the eight hundred time in my life, but I don't think I am.

And I think we're in probably one of the most interesting, exciting in horrible areas of tech so far where we're gonna watch one of these companies collapse. And collapsing might not be as need as the whole company dies, but the fracturing, the talent, the brain drain you're watching IT happen. now.

We've been watching IT for years and the results, well, I mean, look at google search, look at google products, look at how bad they are now. And that's the thing. You think that these companies can't die, and it's probably because dying is a relative term for them.

You're watching the disease work through google as we speak. Proper ga leaving is not a good thing for the company, is just a sign that they don't know what to do. And we're watching the full of run.

We really are, i'm sure, of IT. IT might take ten years, but IT will be fascinating to watch and fascinating to tell you about. And it's been my pleasure to tell you about how how much of IT you can credit to protocol rev. The man who destroyed google search.

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