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>I don't think Google cares about how to monetise this, it benefits from this content being on the web If that was true, there are so many properties that Goog

• pavel_lishin 9y ago
  They don't even try to monetize certain things. Google Reader should have been a goldmine of data to throw at some evil AI dedicated to figuring out what I'm likely to buy based on what RSS feeds I read. I think it's as simple as internal politics being shitty, and certain projects having managers who don't win the battle to keep their project going. Trying to figure out what will or won't stay is as lucrative as reading tea leaves.
  • balladeer 9y ago
    > Google Reader should have been a goldmine of data to throw at some evil AI dedicated to figuring out what I'm likely to buy based on what RSS feeds I read I don't know. Maybe they tried and figured the GR adoption wasn't widespread enough[0] and hence the possible monetisation exercise wouldn't have been worth a business division or a separate department and maybe GR as an experiment failed right then. What say? [0] This comment is anecdotal I would say. I know a lot of people who were/are not on HN, Reddit, Tw etc and definitely were not on GR. So maybe it's just me.