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Google is going to make a ton of enemies (probably too late) if they keep going after every god damn idea. Damn - make your results better.

• rjd 15y ago
  I've had a few friends and myself go through this. What generally happens is Google flounders and fails. They are extraordinarily bad at launching products and even worse at building momentum. Kind of like Microsoft really... I guess its something to do with getting to big, to much bureaucracy. Its more or less a validation of your product, and probably won't hurt your product if its already got momentum. Hell even gmail hasn't even toppled Yahoo or hotmail and most would agree its Googles second strongest product. If you don't have momentum however you're screwed. People won't take you seriously and if you need backing or help its going to damage you. This happened to me last year, I have a fully completed product ready to go live, I just hung back and waited for Google to nose dive. I think I'll launch in a few months as I have another project I want to finish first. If they get a foot hold as they did with maps, you're stuffed. I had a group of friends running mapping companies similar to google maps, but years before hand. One company doesn't exist any more, another moved into a support structure and has managed to survive.. but its not really what the people wanted to do... its what they had to become to survive. The thing about Google is you have no chance of competing as they release products below production costs by shifting money around. You can't compete. but like I said Google is full of fail ... launching around 1000 products a year... seems every 2-3 years they have one that actually works...