Internally Google might be just fine, but optics are equally important in this industry. Before Sundar took over Google never went through bad PR. It's just an observation, not a dig at Google's affairs.
There were a lot of other good things going that masked these. The recent "PR botch ups" are creating more damage. The most famous e.g. is reacting to ChatGPT's hype and rushing to do a demo and then messing it up. It wasn't so much messing up the demo that caught they eye; it was how Google rushed/reacted to do it esp. when Google is considered to be at the forefront of AI. Again, optics. Besides Sundar hasn't come out with anything impressive in the last few years. It's ok to just keep the lights on, but at least don't create bad optics.
VikingCoder|3 years ago
Sunday became CEO on August 10, 2015.
Google+ was launched in 2011. (And the "real name" policy was a PR disaster.)
Google Reader was shut down in 2013. (You can hardly find a PR disaster that people in the tech world complain about more.)
Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe had an anti-poaching agreement that finally got settled in 2015, but they were getting bad press before that.
"Right to be forgotten" bad press was in 2014 and before.
posharma|3 years ago
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amethyst|3 years ago