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I suppose it's the machine gun way of thinking. If you fire enough bullets at something, you're bound to hit it. Same goes with Google releasing a bazillion pr
by froo 16y ago
I suppose it's the machine gun way of thinking. If you fire enough bullets at something, you're bound to hit it.
Same goes with Google releasing a bazillion products.
- seldo 16y agoAsk Yahoo how that worked out for them.
- jrockway 16y agoBut Google already has one successful product, which Yahoo didn't. It's more like MS. We all remember how badly Bob and those new phones failed. But they went from 0-to-success on the gaming console market, and they did it by capitalizing on their already-successful product ("Hey windows developers, click here to compile your existing game for xbox 360!")
- pavs 16y agoI think its fair to say google has more than one successful product.
- points 16y agoThey have one cashcow - adsense/adwords. What other Google products turn a profit?
- sz 16y agoAds are where their revenue comes from directly, but other products play a supporting role.
- pavs 16y agoAdsense is both a medium to generate profit from existing products and a successful product in its own right. Is YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, Android not successful? All these products has very large user adoption and Google is earning money with the help of adsense/doubleclick/AdMob.
- points 16y agoThey're all successful, but does YouTube turn a profit as a unit? Does GMail? I honestly don't know.
- pavs 16y agoYoutube is profitable since this year with ~1 billion revenue: http://mashable.com/2010/03/05/youtube-revenue-2010/ http://mashable.com/2010/03/05/youtube-revenue-2010/ I don't know about gmail specifically, but gmail which is part of Google Enterprise solution is "very" profitable as a unit. You have to look at it this way. All Google's product and services are inter-connected. Unlike tradition software company like MSFT, google doesn't build products for the sole purpose of making profit from start. They make products, and they iterate and years from now if it reaches a tipping point they will start making money off of it. Most of google products are depended on each other's success. So saying things like "Is x product for Google profitable?" is a tricky question. I am sure they have their separate internal account for each products (or maybe not), but as long as each product drives revenue to its profitable product, but individually not profitable; it makes no difference AFA google is concerned.
- abraham 16y agoGoogle Apps: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-enterprise-business-profitable-says-email-migration-proof-points-building/19312 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-enterprise-business-pro...
- seldo 16y agoYahoo has Yahoo.com, a product that brings in hundreds of millions of users even now. A day or two of placement in the home page is more than enough to launch any product.
- intranation 16y agoYahoo! has many successful products. The Yahoo! homepage, Mail, the category leading Answers, News, Sport, and Finance. Those are some of the biggest sites on earth, it seems a bit silly to pretend that Yahoo! doesn't have successful products just because you don't use them.
- aphexairlines 16y agoYahoo brought in $1.6 billion of revenue this second quarter, making $213 million in profit. It's not IBM or Exxon, but still a lot of money.