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Google shuts down services that lose money or that aren't big enough. Google Cloud is a huge business, as are YouTube, and Chromebooks. Firebase is big enough
by pedalpete 2y ago
Google shuts down services that lose money or that aren't big enough.
Google Cloud is a huge business, as are YouTube, and Chromebooks. Firebase is big enough and is a feeder into Google Cloud.
Many of these other adjacent businesses help Google to know more about you to make more money from you.
Google is a LONG way from shutting down. They are still printing money. It's like asking if Microsoft would shut-down when linux was gaining traction in the server space.
Though search is their bread and butter, they haven't ignored AI, they know what's at risk. In fact, they bought DeepMind before OpenAI existed. Are they on the back foot, a little bit, but you're calling this at Mile 1 of a 100 miler.
- bediger4000 2y agoSearch isn't their mainstay, advertising is.
- pedalpete 2y agoGood point, but is it more correct to say Search is their product, advertising is their business model?
- bediger4000 2y agoSearch provides the attention to the ads, doesn't it? From that vantage, the product is attention or views or eyeballs, whatever phrase you want to use. Search becomes a loss leader or similar.