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Larry's idealistic pet projects _are_ corporate strategy. That's why Google dominates - they are unpredictable and creative. Crazy stuff Google did: * mapped
by andrewljohnson 16y ago
Larry's idealistic pet projects _are_ corporate strategy. That's why Google dominates - they are unpredictable and creative.
Crazy stuff Google did:
* mapped all the world's roads using cameras and a mechanical turk, destroying billions in market cap for map data providers
* Android, groundbreaking in both technology and pushing the envelope on patent law
* launched a satellite
* deep tendrils of fiber optics and community oriented wi-fi projects to connect the world
It doesn't surprise me at all Google is building autonomous cars. Search and adwords are not even the most intriguing things to me about Google these days.
Imagine a mad scientist who has $12,000,000,000. That is Google's strategy... also lots of testing.
- rbranson 16y agoSmall correction: Google didn't "map all the world's roads using cameras and a mechanical turk, destroying billions in market cap for map data providers." That is more than a stretch. They mapped SOME of the roads in the US, augmenting existing TIGER data from the US government, and used it in place of TeleAtlas. The "new" data is pretty bad, so I use Bing for directions because of it. They still rely on TeleAtlas (one of the map data providers they "destroyed") for almost every other country.