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No it can't. Stop shoving it into our throats. After Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt, Google turned into company run by salesmen(even though Page had a really
by fear91 14y ago
No it can't. Stop shoving it into our throats.
After Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt, Google turned into company run by salesmen(even though Page had a really groundbreaking idea with his PageRank algorithm). It is not what it used to be in the past.
It no longer innovates. Google's strategy is now more like the one that Microsoft used - copy successful products of other companies and use your money and resources as a leverage. In the mean time, to kill the competition, perform smear campaigns against them or use the vast cash reserves to let them die the financial death(cutting their margins as in the case of Dropbox).
I mean look at Google's search results, they display google + anywhere it is possible. The same can be said about youtube, google books. Soon they will cut off tremendous amount of profit from other websites by introducing the Google shopping upgrade ( paid placement! something they despised in the past ).
They always defend themselves by saying:
"Other search engines are just one click away. People are free to choose others, but since they stay, it must mean we do something good."
Well it is mainly people's habits. For majority of Internet users, 'google' means 'search'. What is interesting is that even if other search engines have better quality of results, those people will not change their search provider. People prefer Bing results to Google's results when they are served in Google's template. That proves something interesting.
I understand - shareholders want growth - but for fucks sake, stop turning that company into the Big Brother.
- myko 14y agoThis is ridiculous. Self driving cars not innovate? Project Glass is not innovative? Google Books, while not particularly innovate, is one of the most massive undertakings of human kind - storing digital copies of every book in existence! This is a win for humanity. You act like Google targeted Dropbox in a recently concerted effort to take over the space. In doing so you are ignoring the fact that GDrive has been talked about since shortly after the release of Gmail. In fact according to Steven Levy's "In the Plex" it was once even ready for customer release a few years before Dropbox was in existence. Google+ is the re-imaging of Google. It's not some Big Brother gestapo your post makes it out to be.
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- herval 14y agoEvery time someone raises this point of view (that Google is flat-out copying everything they can), someone comes up with "remember Google Glass and the self driving cars". The problem is: neither innovations are yet on the market and we frankly don't know if they'll ever be. Just like very innovative products from OTHER companies as well. Remember MS Courier and Nokia's flexible/morphing phones?
- myko 14y agoMonetization != Innovation Many of Google's projects are advancing the state of the art, if you don't see that I don't know what to tell you.
- hackinthebochs 14y agoI really have a hard time considering polishing an existing product as "innovation". Sure its adding value, but innovation it is not.
- myko 14y agoCars that drive themselves is polishing an existing product? What's an example of something that would be innovating?
- hackinthebochs 14y agoI thought the parent post established that we were referring to their other products (basically everything besides glass and self-driving cars). These products are the ones I was referring to.
- herval 14y agoMost innovation is polishing existing things. Sometimes the polishing is as simple as an "iteration" (eg gorilla glass), sometimes it's a complete leap ahead (self-driving cars). Innovative != absolutely new
- herval 14y agoI have the feeling Apple is going the exact way with Cook. They're replacing novelty and polish with more of the same and sloppy (the new iOS shows this all around) (please beware, I'm not comparing Apples to Googles)
- ward 14y ago> People prefer Bing results to Google's results when they are served in Google's template. Source? Having compared Bing's results to Google's from time to time, Bing's seem much less relevant to the search term I'm using.