> I’m pretty sure the engineers responsible for Google Search aren’t happy about the quality of results either. I’m wondering if this isn’t really a tech problem but the influence of some suit responsible for quarterly ad revenue increases.
Please no more of this. Two men, Page and Brin, together have basically unfettered control over Google.* If Google does something bad then, unless it's genuinely something small enough that those two could not be expected to hear about it, it's happening with—at the very least—their acquiescence. And low overall search quality is not something that some "suit" is successfully hiding from Good Czar Larry. They could fire the "suit", or command him or her to make other decisions. This is—again, at the very least—something that they have chosen not to do. The responsiblity lies with them.
* There is the risk of lawsuits from the minority shareholders, I assume. But IIUC this is not realistically that big a restraint on what shareholders with a majority of votes can do. However IANAL.
> I’m pretty sure the engineers responsible for Google Search aren’t happy about the quality of results either. I’m wondering if this isn’t really a tech problem but the influence of some suit responsible for quarterly ad revenue increases.
Please no more of this. Two men, Page and Brin, together have basically unfettered control over Google.* If Google does something bad then, unless it's genuinely something small enough that those two could not be expected to hear about it, it's happening with—at the very least—their acquiescence. And low overall search quality is not something that some "suit" is successfully hiding from Good Czar Larry. They could fire the "suit", or command him or her to make other decisions. This is—again, at the very least—something that they have chosen not to do. The responsiblity lies with them.
* There is the risk of lawsuits from the minority shareholders, I assume. But IIUC this is not realistically that big a restraint on what shareholders with a majority of votes can do. However IANAL.