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Google is doing fine. Google Search seems to be in decline but that has more to do with the slow death of the open internet than with any sort of internal issu

• blagie 4y ago
  Google is in the same stage as Microsoft in the year 2000. It has a lot of cash cows, and is making piles of dollars from them. However, it's lost: - the ability to engineer good products - reputation In the early '00s, most of the really competent people went to Google. Right now, most of the really competent people I know avoid Google, and it's sort of a second choice employer. It has a lot of market power, but it's increasingly vulnerable. The cost structure there doesn't help. High salaries+benefits / fewer employees was a good call. High salaries / 100+k employees is less competitive. I can't predict the future, but I've been bearish on Google for a while.