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biasedOpinion··on Software Disenchantment (2018)
I'm sure that's intentional... I think you can disable it?
biasedOpinion··on Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Do you intentionally work to 10% of your capacity, or do you try to work better but can't?

If it's intentional then I don't understand why you'd do that, it seems to me like it'd be horrible to wake up knowing you'll be slacking all day...

If it's not, I'd suggest first of all changing teams while you learn other technologies for a different job.

edit: there are so many things broken with Google products, there has to be something you're interested in fixing...

biasedOpinion··on The world needs more search engines
Disclaimer: I work at Google, all opinions are my own.

>just pure boolean search

So if I just repeat the word Facebook a hundred times in my personal website, I'd rank higher than facebook.com when people search for "facebook"?

I think simple boolean search works for things like searching books in a library, where you can assume good faith from all the authors. But in the web you can't do that. It's just too easy to game.

biasedOpinion··on The world needs more search engines
Disclaimer: I work at Google so I'm 100% biased. All opinions are my own. Edit: formatting

>search engine is a cloud service, which is not controlled by user of that engine

So is hacker news.

>search gives final results in milliseconds (why? because google cannot spend many seconds/minutes for you, that's why)

Do you want latency to be larger??

>open source, because user should trust the code

That would make it easier for SEOs to game the system. Or perhaps it would put everyone on a level playing field. I'm not sure.

>self-hosted (easily deployed in a click), not a cloud SaaS.

Do you mean users should keep their own index of the whole web by themselves?

>more useful than google because of accumulated data about you that are processed by computational knowledge engine

First I think you greatly overestimate how useful information about you can be. Second if that worked then it would make they problem you mentioned before (information bubble) worse...