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
Engineers don’t make those kinds of decisions.
Exactly this. Amazing engineers can still be run by brain dead management. Turns out being a manager gets you more decision making power though.
it wasn’t an engineering decision
“How can we make more money?”
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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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.
