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No, you're missing the point. Google pays smart people to write proprietary software that they don't sell users access to. Are you confusing the sale of ads w
by reemrevnivek 15y ago
No, you're missing the point. Google pays smart people to write proprietary software that they don't sell users access to. Are you confusing the sale of ads with the sale of the software that allows the ads to be effective? Google's sale of their products would be analogous to Amazon allowing sellers other than Amazon.com to sell stuff through their web store. And they do!
The point of the article is that Amazon also sells the web store itself. Google has interesting, proprietary software, but they don't sell search engines, sorting tools, or scalable web hosting.
- mdwrigh2 15y ago> Google has interesting, proprietary software, but they don't sell search engines http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/ http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/ > , sorting tools Okay, so they don't sell sorting tools. But to be fair, they've published a number of papers on different technologies which have furthered the creation of a number of tools, including sorting tools. > or scalable web hosting. http://code.google.com/appengine/ http://code.google.com/appengine/