...their office product or, more surprisingly & worryingly, their cloud services. How could Google, come distant 3rd in the cloud infrastructure race. They wer

...their office product or, more surprisingly & worryingly, their cloud services. How could Google, come distant 3rd in the cloud infrastructure race. They were the ones that obsessed about milliseconds. They ran YouTube and Gmail and all the other services reliably, at massive scale. Due respect to Amazon's dogfooding, but Amazon never released novel internet applications at anything like the volume that Google did. Google have generally displayed recurring problems getting products to real maturity, and making money from them. For all the high profile stuff that they bought or built over the years... There is still only one real revenue source. It may be something like the "oil curse." It's hard to compete with search/ads on revenue.