shooker435
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
It used to be called Vertex AI Search for Commerce (leave it to Google to rename a product every year...) It's clunky, but it's usually the winner in every AB test I've seen when measuring for revenue per visitor on large catalog ecommerce sites.
That being said, the most accurate/honest depiction I've seen is a 2-part series on PBS. I think it does a great job of capturing the genius alongside the troubled hubris.
This is a really generous interpretation of what happened... He ran off to Europe with one of their neighbors, and his ex-wife (not divorced yet, though!) was left high and dry with no money and was forced to turn the studio into apartments for income.
Is this class action lawsuit territory? How can they just sweep it under the rug like this?
At a high level, Google does not have a product culture, so there is a lot of white space for companies like ours to make adopting Google Cloud APIs much easier for less technical users.
It's also wild how much Agentic AI is creeping into all of our conversations - this space is constantly evolving as we're building.
It's literally down right now on Cyber Monday...
it's up now (the incident, not the outage)