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Amazon makes more on shopping ads than google now. You could say google is no longer in first position for shopping search. Reddit is chipping away the Q&A sea
by bushbaba 4y ago
Amazon makes more on shopping ads than google now. You could say google is no longer in first position for shopping search.
Reddit is chipping away the Q&A search, but time will tell if it has a similar downfall to quora/yahoo-answers.
I’ve seen TikTok lead in educational search, cooking, gardening etc. TikTok could potentially overtake YouTube all together over next 5-10years.
Google maps isn’t as far ahead as it once was. Apple caught up.
Then you got Microsoft whos teams and office suite whicj caught up and surpassed google’s office products (for what enterprise buyers care on)
Leaving what. GCP as their only disruptive marketshare product area? And GCP while high margin isn’t nearly as high margin as their ads businesses. For GCP to be profitable they need to severely cut wages for cost center roles. A PgM in GCP shouldn’t be making 300k when AWS and Azure spend just 200k on the same role.
Finally you’ve got the money pit of waymo, X, and the bets. All of them have neither a real path to profitability nor compelling return on investment.
Id say the investors are right. Google is the new IBM, return profits to shareholders so they can invest them in more fruitful endeavors.
- Scubabear68 4y agoI think Google Maps is already losing. I was a faithful user since it came out. Game Apple Maps a few tries but always went back. The past couple of years Google maps has gotten more glitchy, given worse directions, and most recently started showing extreme lag. Maps in CarPlay started falling behind real-time. First by a few seconds, then by minutes. Wasn’t sure if it was the car head unit, phone, reception or what. Out of desperation I tried Apple Maps. Not only did it work flawlessly, but its driving prompts are greatly superior to Google maps. I could go on about YouTube having broken bulk-publishing of videos (this for my son’s football and basketball games chopped up into indivuap videos). It’s all horrible now.
- CamelCaseName 4y agoGoogle Maps is unequivocally the champion in terms of reviews, and this is what really matters when it comes to actually finding places to go. Not just that, but it's directly monetizable because if the user journey starts with a Google Maps search query, e.g. "lunch near me", those first few results are worth real money.
- lumost 4y agoIsn’t this saying that google maps started optimizing the thing that made money- rather than the thing customers want? Apple Maps will get better at reviews as more people switch over.
- bushbaba 4y agoApple Maps leverages yelp for reviews which is a better dataset than google reviews. And just like above said, google is optimizing for ad revenue not user experience. This opens the door for a competitor to swoop in and offer better results.
- mrfluffybeard 4y agoGoogle reviews is more superior when it comes to europe.
- mfuzzey 4y agoIsn't Apple maps only for Apple devices? If so no competition for GMaps.