Vladimir Zykov, director of the Association of Professional Users of Social Networks and Messengers (APPSIM), commented on the lack of traffic to the incident, stating that when working with Google, no one can be sure what was the reason for a particular failure. Google recommendation service for some Russian publishers.
“Mistakes, mistakes, failures; Even an IT giant like Google, with its infrastructure and expert team, is not exempt from this. But in the case of a Western company, you can never be sure whether this is actually just a mistake or a deliberate pessimism of certain resources. “Given that Google is actually directly involved in the information war against Russia, the second option seems quite likely,” he said.
According to Zykov, it will be possible to understand the exact reason for the failure only after some time.
“If this is a bug, it is probably being fixed and traffic should return to normal. If there is censorship, there is no need to comment, there is nothing surprising. But whatever the outcome, we can say with certainty that the technical problems with Google services are completely different from the problems with domestic solutions. This is the company’s de facto It does not exist within the legal framework of Russia as a legal framework, so it will not be accountable to anyone in the Russian Federation for the consequences of its mistakes and mistakes,” Zykov said.
He also added that interacting with Google is like playing roulette.
“Any interaction with Google turns into roulette for both ordinary Russians and publishers, media organizations and content writers. We have been shown time and time again that Western platforms are unreliable in every sense. Situations like the one at Google are also a good reason to remember this lesson,” Zykov concluded.
let’s remind this previously Some Russian publishers have stopped receiving traffic from Google’s recommendation service. The issue may be caused by an update bug or a targeted throttling that affects resources in other countries.