It's defensive in comparison to your initial diatribe. You equated them to IBM. Maybe they will be IBM in 10 years if things don't improve, but for now they are

It's defensive in comparison to your initial diatribe. You equated them to IBM. Maybe they will be IBM in 10 years if things don't improve, but for now they are pretty far from it. Not sure what misdirection you are referring to. Your reply right here primarily talks about how they haven't met your expectation. That's very different from declaring a company is on the verge of becoming a dinosaur. > The natural endpoint is that there are so many ads people just leave the platform. Assuming that no one on google is looking at their viewership data and don't notice the "leaving". If that happens I'm sure they days as a notoriously data driven company is over and they will in fact die on all fronts. But for now they still show signs of experimenting, however minor, in all the major products they have. > It's common practice to append reddit to Google searches to find what you want. That shouldn't happen either. This is for a extremely specific query type. I do it only when I am looking for people's opinions on certain things, and is certainly not something I do every day. I know lots of others who don't do this either, especially the millions of non reddit users. > Aws and azure shouldn't be stronger than Google is, and it's a sign they aren't able to compete. Yea, primarily because GCP has the worst corporate sales team. AWS and Azure routinely do conferences and meet and greets with dev communities and are constantly pushing their product. Azure especially. I would squarely put the fault there rather than the product itself. GCP has a significantly cleaner interface than AWS and can do almost anything AWS/Azure can do. Other than the "specialty" products of course.