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certified prabhakar certified raghavan
February 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Muttering “prabhakar raghavan” to myself again
December 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Newsletter: Google has deposed Prabhakar Raghavan, the Man Who Killed Google Search, in a desperate move to reverse a years-long decline in revenue growth, product stagnation, and a categorical failure to make any impact with their AI products.
www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
Requiem for Raghavan
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."  An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is ...
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October 21, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Who is Prabhakar Raghavan?
November 30, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Okay so I just connected the dots on something and I feel insane. In 2020 google replaced Ben Gomes with Prabhakar Raghavan as head of search.

Raghavan was hired in 2012 as a manager.

His previous job was head of search at YAHOO from 2005 to 2012! This guy killed yahoo!
April 18, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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still makes me so happy that I have poisoned Google Search against Prabhakar Raghavan
AI Overview Learn more https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Prabhakar_Raghavan%2C_Vice-Presidente_S%C3%AAnior_do_Google_Global_%28cropped%29.jpg/640px-Prabhakar_Raghavan%2C_Vice-Presidente_S%C3%AAnior_do_Google_Global_%28cropped%29.jpg According to the Ed Zitron podcast, Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads, led a coup to take control of Google Search. The podcast episode claims that an email chain in 2019 led to a series of events that caused Google Search to decline. Explanation The podcast episode, titled "The Man That Destroyed Google Search", is available on Apple Podcasts. Google Search was originally developed in 1996 by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Scott Hassan. The search engine was set up in the garage of Susan Wojcicki's Menlo Park home. Although Google is still a dominant search engine, its dominance is declining. According to eMarketer, Google will not control a majority of the US search market for the first time in decades.
March 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I love that this man's name just pops up everywhere now
Reddit post: Fuck Prabhakar Raghavan
December 31, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Finding out that Prabhakar Raghavan looked at Windows Home S and was like "yeah dude that rocks" is making me disassociate
November 30, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Moving on from Raghavan shows that Google is desperate, that their upcoming earnings will be grim, that their search and ads monopolies are collapsing, and they have no big ideas to find growth. Raghavan failed, and Google doesn't know what to do next.
www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
October 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM
theophite.bsky.social
there is no bigger critic of prabakhar raghavan than me but the problem his organization is dealing with is intractable using any existing technique.
June 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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We're like five replies from someone telling me about prabhakar raghavan
August 13, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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someone suggested that Prabhakar Raghavan could join OpenAI, and if that happens the joker makeup would simply sprout from my skin like a rash
December 3, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Based on how I felt on my last birthday I cannot possibly predict what happens in the next year. All I know is that Prabhakar Raghavan no longer runs Google search, a gift that will keep giving forever
April 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
daikaiju-arts.bsky.social
My Irl Gangle and canon Gangle, Zoey Raghavan, drawing 💚

(Don’t tell them they’re the same person, just let them have fun)

#TheAmazingDigitalCircus #tadc
June 22, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan, formerly head of Google Search (among other things), was moved to “Chief Technologist,” a ceremonial title for a man who oversaw the destruction of arguably the most important tech product of all time.
www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
October 21, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Just to be clear Gemini was under the remit of Prabhakar Raghavan until very recently. This is how you know you've got the good stuff
December 29, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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Prabhakar Raghavan may be a computer scientist, but he joined Google in 2012 as a manager, working directly under CEO Sundar Pichai, a former McKinsey man. Raghavan is a class traitor that deliberately ran out Ben Gomes, who worked on search for 19 years.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
April 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Prabhakar Raghavan is a charlatan, a man who has fallen upwards into the most important job in software, and since becoming head of search in 2020, Google has become an ultra-profitable and increasingly less-useful site. Raghavan is a villain.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
April 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Prabhakar Raghavan leaving Yahoo for Google
April 18, 2024 at 6:23 AM
ela-bambust.bsky.social
before the article: "wow I wonder why google is worse now :("
after the article: "understood it is now my life mission to hunt down Raghavan and Pichai"
March 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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We - with good reason - spend hours trashing Elon Musk for destroying Twitter. But I'd say that Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar Raghavan deserve a hundred times more bile for destroying Google Search, and have unquestionably harmed society so that they can make Google over $100bn a year.
April 13, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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By the way, if you think Prabhakar Raghavan is bad, nobody is worse than Zuckerberg. And I've got the god damn proof
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · May 10
here is a preview of an upcoming episode of Better Offline.

I call it "How Mark Zuckerberg Is Killing Facebook."
May 10, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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I tell you, if i see someone mention Prabhakar Raghavan and they don't cite me, I will remember it forever
May 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Google needs you to be on Google longer and as a result you finding stuff efficiently is not necessarily in line with their plans.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
Under Raghavan, Google has become less reliable, less transparent, and is dominated by search engine optimized aggregators, advertising, and outright spam. As I’ve argued previously, we — with good reason — continually complain about the state of Twitter under Elon Musk, but I’d argue Raghavan (and, by extension, Google CEO Sundar Pichai) deserve as much criticism, if not more, for the damage they’ve done to society. Because Google is the ultimate essential piece of online infrastructure, just like power lines and water mains are in the physical realm. Raghavan and his cronies worked to oust Ben Gomes, a man who dedicated a good portion of his life to making the world’s information more accessible, in the process burning the Library of Alexandria to the ground so that Pichai could make more than 200 million dollars a year. And Raghavan — a manager, hired by Sundar Pichai, a former McKinsey man and a manager by trade — is an example of everything wrong with the tech industry. Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies that would make Google more profitable and less useful to the world at large. Since Prabhakar took the reins in 2020, Google Search has dramatically declined, with the numerous “core” search updates allegedly made to improve the quality of results having an adverse effect, increasing the prevalence of spammy, search engine optimized content.
December 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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I went for a sports massage the other day and the person asked me to say "Prabhakar Raghavan." I'm going to be saying this man's name the rest of my life
December 14, 2024 at 7:08 PM