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This is analogous to the Apple Maps launch failure. Except that Apple competes to make the best smartphone, and an iPhone was still valuable without Apple Maps
by odyssey7 2y ago
This is analogous to the Apple Maps launch failure.
Except that Apple competes to make the best smartphone, and an iPhone was still valuable without Apple Maps.
What happens to Google if it stops being able to compete in search?
- kibwen 2y ago"Search" isn't Google's product. Google hasn't been a search company for 20 years. "Ads" is Google's product. And the only way they'll go bankrupt is if 1) companies realize that advertising is pointless (I'm not holding my breath), or 2) some other company takes over from Google, which seems unlikely without government intervention (I'm not holding my breath). Google is a shit company, but they'll still be around 20 years from now, because our economy is nonsensical and irrational.
- tedunangst 2y agoStill need visitors to see the ads.
- coldcode 2y agoI think it's a good use for AI. AI's making ads that AI's watch to enrich Google execs. Who needs people?
- giantrobot 2y agoGoogle runs ads for a significant percentage of the web (or the markets for ads). Even if everyone stopped going to google.com tomorrow they'd still be seeing ads that make Google money. Google the company would still be tracking much of the web's traffic feeding it into their ads platform.
- astrange 2y agoInteresting thing about that is that Bing Maps was worse at the time, has never gotten better, and nobody noticed because nobody cares about it.