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You are aware that Google has revenue, right?

jakeogh 9y ago
So does Facebook. So did MySpace. Heck PAC's are funding major news chans, you really think the goog machine didn't get serious help?
- galdosdi 9y ago
  So what's your thesis for how Google will fail? They get a cut out of a plurality of the ad clicks on the web. Do you think people will stop using the web or stop clicking on ads or what?
  - jakeogh 9y ago
    Brand destruction. People already make jokes about "google it; but don't actually". I cant remember the last time I clicked an ad. How about you? Google is not "the web". In "conservative" circles it's more than dead. Only it's bubble prevents you from knowing that. It's doodles are like the bad joke of the day. People love to see what the next one is, but not for reasons goog would like. I got annoyed enough that I made https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate and as you know, there are plenty of similar things. It's only a matter of time. I hope you take don't this the wrong way. I'm being as honest as I can. Google has done amazing things. Android won the mobile market for linux. Google video lit an entire subculture, and youtube for all it's recent problems is an amazing platform. Their software contributions and open source scientific progress are wonderful things. But, I fear it's too late. They took the social engineering too far, and the owners are too invested in it to fix it.
    - asah 9y ago
      Um, no: Google maps, apps, hosting and X/waymo. Each are very large businesses using b2b business models and growing quickly to someday stand side by side with websearch/ads/YouTube.
    - galdosdi 9y ago
      Hahahahahaha. All those doofuses who hate the Google brand still end up reading articles on websites that pay some company that nobody realizes is a Google subsidiary to manage their ads, and they click on those ads. If that's not a strong moat (in the morningstar financial sense) I don't know what is!
      - jakeogh 9y ago
        Speak for yourself. I know who owns the "news" I read. Funny enough the fake news you elude to has made me (for me) a bunch of money. People are so polarized, and half them have no idea who owns their news outlets. In the US we have very few options other than betting on the stock market, but there is Predictit, and it's an awesome reality check. I was buying the right side of the prez election for 15c on the dollar when the Billy Bush (yep that Bush) tape hit. Google is a perfect example, you are very right, most people only "kinda" know it's goog machine that decided what they found. BTW, nobody clicks the ads. That's bots. SHHHH.

So does Facebook. So did MySpace. Heck PAC's are funding major news chans, you really think the goog machine didn't get serious help?

galdosdi 9y ago
So what's your thesis for how Google will fail? They get a cut out of a plurality of the ad clicks on the web. Do you think people will stop using the web or stop clicking on ads or what?
- jakeogh 9y ago
  Brand destruction. People already make jokes about "google it; but don't actually". I cant remember the last time I clicked an ad. How about you? Google is not "the web". In "conservative" circles it's more than dead. Only it's bubble prevents you from knowing that. It's doodles are like the bad joke of the day. People love to see what the next one is, but not for reasons goog would like. I got annoyed enough that I made https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate and as you know, there are plenty of similar things. It's only a matter of time. I hope you take don't this the wrong way. I'm being as honest as I can. Google has done amazing things. Android won the mobile market for linux. Google video lit an entire subculture, and youtube for all it's recent problems is an amazing platform. Their software contributions and open source scientific progress are wonderful things. But, I fear it's too late. They took the social engineering too far, and the owners are too invested in it to fix it.
  - asah 9y ago
    Um, no: Google maps, apps, hosting and X/waymo. Each are very large businesses using b2b business models and growing quickly to someday stand side by side with websearch/ads/YouTube.
  - galdosdi 9y ago
    Hahahahahaha. All those doofuses who hate the Google brand still end up reading articles on websites that pay some company that nobody realizes is a Google subsidiary to manage their ads, and they click on those ads. If that's not a strong moat (in the morningstar financial sense) I don't know what is!
    - jakeogh 9y ago
      Speak for yourself. I know who owns the "news" I read. Funny enough the fake news you elude to has made me (for me) a bunch of money. People are so polarized, and half them have no idea who owns their news outlets. In the US we have very few options other than betting on the stock market, but there is Predictit, and it's an awesome reality check. I was buying the right side of the prez election for 15c on the dollar when the Billy Bush (yep that Bush) tape hit. Google is a perfect example, you are very right, most people only "kinda" know it's goog machine that decided what they found. BTW, nobody clicks the ads. That's bots. SHHHH.