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They did a pretty good job in persuading people to use search, adsense, YouTube, Gmail, Maps and a bunch of other products. Singling out a few couple of the le
by wartijn_ 4y ago
They did a pretty good job in persuading people to use search, adsense, YouTube, Gmail, Maps and a bunch of other products.
Singling out a few couple of the less successful ones to claim a trillion dollar company is “clumsy at persuading people to use their products” seems like a pretty bad take.
- roenxi 4y agoYou'll note that all the examples you're citing were released more than a decade ago (search wasn't even this century!). And YouTube was an acquisition. They were basically the work of a different Google to the one that is walking around now. The stereotype of Google back then was very different. People would quote things like "don't be evil".
- fsociety 4y agoThe only products you listed which weren’t acquisitions are search and gmail. Search is exactly the problem Google was made to handle and Gmail.. well I don’t love gmail but it is a good enough product I guess?