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The more I read about Google the more I am convinced that the only reason it proliferated because it's an ad company. Google would've gone bankrupt in its preli
by bvhvhfcgxfdf 4y ago
The more I read about Google the more I am convinced that the only reason it proliferated because it's an ad company. Google would've gone bankrupt in its preliminary phase if it was a company that added any real value.
- mkl95 4y agoThe more I read about Google the more I am convinced it cannot be treated as a single organization, but as many organizations operating under the same name - some of them brilliant, some of them utterly clueless.
- joemi 4y agoBack when they were just a search engine, they added HUGE value. Search was really terrible before them, and when using google for the first time after using all the other search engines, it really felt like actual magic.
- kalleboo 4y agoGoogle Maps also felt like magic when it came out and you could just drag to scroll vs the slow click-click-click of Mapquest. Similarly everyone was convinced Gmail was an April Fool's joke when they gave you 1 GB of storage when everyone else just gave you 3 MB.
- nmfisher 4y agoWhat’s also amusing is that their support for advertisers is just as bad. The reality is that companies will tolerate just about anything as long as you have eyeballs to sell.
- type_Ben_struct 4y agoI think that’s an unfair statement. There are good and bad parts of Google, but to say they add no value is a stretch. Can you really say that across YouTube, Search, Gmail, Drive, Cloud, Open Source Contributions (Kubernetes, Tensorflow, etc) and so on they don’t add any real value anywhere at all?