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The heart of the problem in my opinion is that Google is an ad company first. Their primary concern is selling ads. If a given product is not helping them targe
by lowlevel 5y ago
The heart of the problem in my opinion is that Google is an ad company first. Their primary concern is selling ads. If a given product is not helping them target or sell their ads, it gets sunset. Google has a long history of ruining or killing everything they touch... and I don't expect this to change. Too many smart people there, not enough idiots.
- wbl 5y agoWhy not double down on that and coast?
- giantrobot 5y agoIt seems like Google uses the Sand Hill Road model: fund a hundred projects they know will fail to find the one that has 1000x return. If the 99 failures at least feed a little data into the ad machine they're not a total loss and then they've got the one break-out product to attach to the money printer.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoThey saw Microsoft miss the Web, and they are afraid of missing the Next Big Thing, so they invest in everything for however long the money fountain from ads might last.
- cycomanic 5y agoThe thing is facebook is an ad company first as well, but doing much better with in this respect.
- logicchains 5y agoMaybe because Facebook's hiring process is slightly more sane than Google's, so they get more engineers with decent design/product sensibility and fewer engineers who just grinded a bunch of coding tests.