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Comment by laylomo2 | Hacker News Reader

Just another logical step in Google’s brand erosion. After a sufficient erosion has taken place a new CEO will be appointed to “bring back” the old Google. But by then it will be too late.

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Will it be too late? Balmer's stench is almost completely off Microsoft.

Too late for some. I will never go back to Windows, won't ever use Bing. Still don't trust any MS product even though I do use VSCode (mostly due to Remote not being available in VSCodium). So objectively speaking I agree that the stench is mostly off, but subjectively I have 0 trust in MS (and I did have some trust before).

Marissa mayer?

Maybe the new CEO can personally redesign the logo with help from an intern. That should fix things, right?

I hadn’t heard the back story for this and tried searching it. DuckDuckGo returned generic logo design advice, Google and Bing returned a bunch of results about a similar but different story, Kagi got it in the first result. This was with a very lazy query, just copy-pasting part of the comment, but still telling, I think.

The logical step would be Marissa.ai. Google is so deep in AI and Google-Scale optimization, automating their management with an AI including the CEO, should just be a matter of time.

Great idea! Marissa.ai would have 2 tasks:

- redesigning Google logo

- buying a failing social network

Pretty easy to build I would think.

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