"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.

Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck::“These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users,” the union representing the contractors said.

  • brb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t understand what the title is trying to say. Google fires workers which lead to improved search results that have been previously bad??

    • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Employees that work on improving search results… Have been fired / laid off… After report comes out about how bad search results are.

  • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Managers do all the real work, thus deserve all the compensation

    - managers everywhere, every day

    I may not know how to write programs, but I could still do a better job than people with decades of experience in doing exactly that

    - these particular managers

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      They’ve laid off programmers, but the people in this particular story aren’t programmers.

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        10 months ago

        The workers in question are employed by RaterLabs, an Appen subsidiary specializing in search engine evaluation. They are responsible for training Google’s search algorithm by testing search queries and rating the accuracy and relevance of the results.

        Oh, yeah probably you’re right.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The headline for parents is that Google is firing a bunch of people who keep gore and porn out of Google safe search.

    I’ll be right back, I need to grab some popcorn for this.

    After I double check that my own kid’s browsers all default to DuckDuckGo…

  • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Search doesn’t suck because people aren’t working to make it better.

    Search was working great for years. Search sucks because they are fucking it with SEO and ads, and they like it that way because they make more money.

    So whoever they are firing for whatever reason has nothing to do with their shitty search.