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What has Google ever really marketed? Google's basic strategy seems to be to throw shit on the wall and see what sticks.

• enitihas 9y ago
  Google+ was heavily marketed though.
  • dannyw 9y ago
    And it didn’t work. What makes you think it’ll work this time?
    • majewsky 9y ago
      Chrome was also heavily marketed, and that worked just fine.
      • xab9 9y ago
        Because it's good. When firefox started slowly killing xul and the clusterfuck called IE stopped being the top (rabid) dog, a new kid had to come along. Google+ seemed like an afterthought, a way to create a facebook clone without creating a facebook clone.
        • enitihas 9y ago
          Google+ was given the most importance of any project within Google as far as I know.
          • chii 9y ago
            Politically, it's given importance, but users didn't see it that way, unlike chrome. It just goes to show that an exec pushing a project doesn't mean much when it's a shit project.
• ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  I can't watch TV without seeing either a "Make Google do it" ad for Google Assistant or an ad for the Google Pixel or Chromebook. Google runs a metric ----ton of ads for their products. Now mind you, nobody buys those products. But they definitely market them.