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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ex-Googler: Google’s AI projects are driven by ‘stone cold panic’  Search Engine Land Google’s AI overview suggests blinker fluid for cars  Quartz Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button  The Verge Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced on January 20 that around 12,000 employees would be cut.Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty Images Former Googler Nicholas Dufau said he felt “acutely expendable” after being laid off via email. He wrote on LinkedIn that he discovered he’d lost his job while feeding his newborn daughter at 2 a.m. Google said on January 20 it was laying off 12,000 workers. A former Google employee said he felt “acutely expendable” upon discovering… Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced on January 20 that around 12,000 employees would be cut.Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto/Getty Images Former Googler Nicholas Dufau said he felt “acutely expendable” after being laid off via email. He wrote on LinkedIn that he discovered he’d lost his job while feeding his newborn daughter at 2 a.m. Google said on January 20 it was laying off 12,000 workers. A former Google employee said he felt “acutely expendable” upon discovering… Source link

A Google employee said he and his wife were both laid off by the tech giant in Friday’s mass cull. Ashish Kalsi wrote on LinkedIn that they stared at each other in “disbelief” that morning as their daughter slept. Kalsi said he’s on an H-1B visa and has a 60-day “countdown” to find a new role or leave the US. … Source link

A laid-off Google engineer said his “spidey-senses” detected incoming job cuts at the company. Zac Bowling told Insider he’d been laid off before and was familiar with the build-up. He said Google’s severance email was “cold,” “faceless,” and made him feel “isolated.” … Source link

An ex-Googler named Marissa Mayer appeared on the Freakonomics podcast to discuss the topic of whether Google is getting worse. Mayer suggested that asking why Google Search is getting worse is the wrong question. Her explanation of what is wrong turns the spotlight back on the web itself. Why Marissa Mayer’s Opinion Matters Marissa Mayer was employee #20 at Google, overseeing engineers, becoming director of consumer web products and was a part of the three-person team that worked on… Source link