Ex-Googler: Ad revenue is hiding Google’s fundamental problems – Search Engine Land
Google made $224 billion from ad revenue in 2022, which has helped hide four major cultural problems within the company, according to former Google engineer Praveen Seshadri.
Why we care. Although Seshadri was not a member of the search team, he offers some interesting insights from within Google that may help us understand why Google has been lagging behind Microsoft and OpenAI in the ongoing AI wars – and why Google brought back co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin during its “code red” period.
Google’s four cultural problems. Seshadri, who worked at Google for three years, wrote that Google has four cultural problems:
- No mission.
- No urgency.
- Delusions of exceptionalism.
- Mismanagement.
Seshadri wrote these are all “natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called ‘Ads’ that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.” He added:
“While two of Google’s core values are ‘respect the user’ and ‘respect the opportunity’, in practice the systems…
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