> Employees were encouraged to spend up to twenty-percent of their paid work time pursuing personal projects. The objective of the program was to inspire innovation in participating employees and ultimately increase company potential. For Google's part, Gmail and AdSense both arose out of side projects. In 2013, Google discontinued 20 percent time.
What has Google released since 2013[0]? Stadia?
Then you tack on that Google Search as of today is basically unusable/broken with people needing to append site:, double-quoting everything, or enabling verbatim search to get high quality results. Heck, on top of that, I also have a uBlock configuration that removes 280 domains from Google Results because they're all auto-generated spam of Stackoverflow answers.
There is something deeply wrong with the culture inside Google.
- GCP Suite (a full integrated and consistent suit, answering so many things)
- Google Workspace (trust me when you get to know everything that is possible you will be amazed)
- Tensorflow and other Machine Learning applications
Google Cloud is a worse clone of AWS, is that innovative? Redmond-style photocopying?
I'll give you TensorFlow, but we're talking about that being their death knell, so congratulations about signing their own death-warrant?
It went from "spend 20% on whatever project you find interesting!" to "spend UP TO 20% on a project your manager approves of and can defend from their manager, with routine reporting on the status, direction, and potential outcomes."
Employees went from wanting to work at Google for the "20% Time" to not using it because it was a huge hassle that could risk their career advancement, if your 20% time project didn't pan out. It went from a perk to a gamble almost overnight.
The result in the same either way though: Google stopped innovating.
Can you describe exactly what you mean? If there is a way to hide specific domains from showing in search results, it would be an incredible boon for me.
This certainly hasn’t been my experience. I’ve found GCP products to be much better/easier to deal with than their AWS counterparts.
https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
In particular look at: dist/google/ and stackoverflow_copycats.txt
https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
In particular look in the dist folder, find your search engine(s) of choice, and then get the blocklist you'd like. Paste into "MyFilters" in uBlock.
Bonus: Here's one that entirely blocks Youtube Shorts in your Subscriptions feed:
www.youtube.com##ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(#thumbnail[href*=shorts])