5 ms·
Google has had no serious innovation in 20 years. Issue the dividend already and stop calling yourself a technology growth company.
by trident1000 6y ago
Google has had no serious innovation in 20 years. Issue the dividend already and stop calling yourself a technology growth company.
- SamReidHughes 6y agoAutomatic translation, alpha go, google maps UI, ...
- trident1000 6y agoalpha go was acquired if Im not mistaken. Sure on the others.
- anoncareer0212 6y agoNo and no, unless you're picking a very unusual way of attributing things
- trident1000 6y agoIt was developed by DeepMind Technologies which was later acquired by Google.
- anoncareer0212 6y agoTemporal order is reversed, significantly
- trident1000 6y agoNo not reversed. This is public information.
- anoncareer0212 6y agoExactly - development began in 2014, it was acquired in 2014, games against Sodol were March 2016. (I'm somewhat cheating here, so it's unfair, but I gotta tell you it's a real headscratcher having a stranger explain this to me while they're not checking wikipedia)
- trident1000 6y agoAlpha Go was already launched when Google acquired it. Youre a moron. I dont know what elese to say.
- dang 6y agoSwipes like that will get you banned on HN. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? Your comment would be fine with just the first sentence.
- lobotryas 6y agoWe’re talking about paradigm shifts and not just incremental innovation (both are important, but there is a huge difference).
- anticensor 6y agoParadigm shift can also happen incrementally. Not every revolution is sudden.
- tolbish 6y agoGoogle Fi has been a godsend compared to the likes of AT&T, Verizon, and TMobile.
- scarface74 6y agoAnd then just like so many other Google initiatives, they got bored abandoned it and in some cases left damaged roads in their wake. https://wpln.org/post/google-fiber-disruptions-have-some-saying-i-told-you-so-about-buried-cables/ https://wpln.org/post/google-fiber-disruptions-have-some-say... https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/louisville-to-fix-google-fiber-street-damage-in-highlands-area-by-next-summer-councilman-says/article_0ed2ab7e-a974-11e9-b734-afc5e2d0502a.html https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/louisville-to-fix-google-... In the meantime AT&T has been rolling out gigabit up/down for the past 5 years. I got AT&T four years ago and the price has been $70/month no extra fees.
- jen20 6y agoGoogle Fi is not Google Fiber - it’s probably the least overtly scumbag-y of the US cellphone networks. That said, I switched away from it today after a few years of OK service because they don’t support Apple Watches.
- scarface74 6y agoMy bad. I’m looking at their plans. https://fi.google.com/about/plans/ https://fi.google.com/about/plans/ They look worse than T-mobile. https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans Unlimited 3G hot spot and $20/month for tablets with unlimited data can’t be beat.
- swiley 6y agogoogle docs as an application of distributed data structures is IMO pretty innovative. I'm not a fan of google but they've done a handful of things since the turn of the millennium.
- jeffbee 6y agoAlso an acquisition, FWIW.
- SquareWheel 6y agoSo was DOS. That doesn't mean Microsoft doesn't get credit for Windows.
- ma2rten 6y agoYou gotta be kidding. It's hard to find a company that innovated more in the last 20 years: MapReduce, Spanner, Protocol Buffers, Gmail, Go Lang, Android, Chrome, Microservices, Borg, Tensorflow, TPUs, Google Maps, Google Street View, Google Docs, Google Translate, Dremel, Duplex, Chromebooks, ChromeCast, Daydream, mobile first development, BeyondCorp, V8, Kubernetes, LevelDB... Those are just some of things I can think of from the top of my head and doesn't include the machine learning research that google and deepmind are doing.