Om Malik: The Mediocrity of Modern Google | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Om Malik: The Mediocrity of Modern Google | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Om Malik: The Mediocrity of Modern Google . “I’ve watched Google since its inception, and perhaps that’s why its current state of middle-aged mediocrity feels particularly painful. The company that once promised to organize the world’s information has become a cautionary tale about the perils of corporate success and the inevitable entropy that follows.”The post Om Malik: The Mediocrity of Modern Google first appeared on ResearchBuzz: Firehose.

The Mediocrity of Modern Google

These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it? The company that once represented the pinnacle of innovation has devolved into a symbol of corporate indifference. Let me share a personal example that illustrates this dec…