Ryan Moulton, a Google Search engineer with 18 years of experience, publicly criticized recent court statements regarding Google's search algorithms. He expressed disappointment in the court's understanding of search result impacts, claiming that worse results yield fewer user tasks, while better results drive engagement. Moulton highlighted the inaccurate portrayal of data in antitrust cases against Google, arguing that the viewpoint from judges may downplay significant effects. His comments offer a rare glimpse of internal dissent over legal proceedings affecting tech companies.
This isn't true. When search results are worse, people attempt fewer tasks. When they're better they attempt more.
Apparently the root cause of this article is that the judge in one of the antitrust lawsuits thought these numbers were small instead of big. (They're big.)
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