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> Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years. They have plenty of great tech for consumers right now: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android,.. You ca
by swat535 2mo ago
> Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years.
They have plenty of great tech for consumers right now: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android,..
You can perhaps argue that search might suffer because of AI but they've done a great job scaling horizontally into many verticals.
I don't think Google is going anywhere.
- thefourthchime 2mo agoThe newest of those are 20 years old. Let’s be honest. Google was amazing back then, now they’re just an ad-business flailing around in other side quests.
- CountHackulus 2mo agoGmail is going to be Google's System/390 mainframes.
- dweekly 2mo agoGCP/Vertex, Firebase, Spanner, Waymo, Gemini + Nano Banana, Google Photos, TPUs, Pixel, Assistant, Google Fi, Taara...
- dghlsakjg 2mo agoMost of those are also at least a decade old, and some of them are acquisitions.
- kthinckley 2mo agoEvery single one of these hemorrhages money from their ad business
- svachalek 2mo agoIt's a lot of stuff, but with the possible exception of Waymo and the TPU, isn't this all going down in history under "also ran"?
- outside1234 2mo agoPeople used to say the same thing about Microsoft with Windows you know...
- rockskon 2mo agoOnce upon a time it would've been unthinkable for Google search to become awful and nearly worthless due, in large part, by Google's discretionary choices. Related - interns these days don't seem to have any particular preference for using Google for finding information...
- browningstreet 2mo ago^FTFY “interns these days don’t seem to have any particular preference for finding information”
- sklargh 2mo agoCan you explain this behavior a little bit more. Where do they seek information - is it a consumer chat app, social media app’s search functions?
- rockskon 2mo agoBing because it's the default on their web browsers they've used in college and work. But moreso - whatever the default is what they use. They have zero attachment to Google.
- xnx 2mo agoBing shows no signs of marketshare growth: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
- rockskon 2mo agoI noticed that website doesn't show the absolute numbers involved in search engine use. And you ignored the part where I said "they use the default".
- astrange 2mo agoGoogle search is bad because there aren't any websites anymore. It's not really possible for it to be good.
- smcleod 2mo agoI think it's a bit inflated to label Gmail a "great tech for consumers". Maps certainly, YouTube mostly, Chrome & Android for loyalists, but Gmail hasn't been "great tech" for well over a decade. Additionally these are all old products - even the company's more recent products such as Gemini feel stale and on unsteady ground.