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The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 3 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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flakiness ◴[23 Apr 24 19:23 UTC] No.40136091[source]▶
Prabhakar Raghavan is an author of "Introduction to Information Retrieval", the definitive textbook on search at that time. This fact metaphorically depicts how sad this story is.

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Ch...

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1. cbsmith ◴[23 Apr 24 23:18 UTC] No.40138506[source]▶
> This fact metaphorically depicts how sad this story is.

It also highlights how selective the information & context provided in the story is.

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2. relaxing ◴[24 Apr 24 00:06 UTC] No.40138854[source]▶
His authorship is mentioned in the story.
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3. cbsmith ◴[24 Apr 24 00:16 UTC] No.40138942[source]▶
Yes, in the same sentence that says that his choosing the management track "definitely tracks with everything I’ve found about him".