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That's funny because other than Google Street View, I can't think of any "sexy" things Google has done. It's mostly really mundane (if sometimes well executed)
by malvosenior 7y ago
That's funny because other than Google Street View, I can't think of any "sexy" things Google has done. It's mostly really mundane (if sometimes well executed) products and me-too style copycats of chat products. Oh and of course tons of horrible ad tech stuff.
I can't say Google's launched anything exciting in the past decade. If they're shooting for sexy, they're failing miserably.
- datguacdoh 7y agoLoon, Waymo, and Stadia seem pretty sexy, for entirely new product spaces. And within the current products AR maps, digital assistant, and AI auto complete in Gmail are pretty cool but I guess that's highly dependent on what you as an individual would care about.
- pjmlp 7y agoStadia you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive
- rishav_sharan 7y agoGmail was the sexiest thing when it launched. I remember I was so desperate for the Beta invite.
- paganel 7y agoThere was a time when the YouTube “recommended” list was quite good (around 2011-2013), that’s how I discovered lots of very interesting music back then. In the meantime things have gone considerably downhill.
- freedomben 7y agoI've noticed this too, and not just with Google. Same with Amazon and many other big tech companies. I've wondered why, and the only thing I can think of is that they are all jumping to machine learning, and the results are worse than the old-fashioned algorithms.