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We're five years and billions of dollars of wealth destroyed from the following Google headline: Google to re-focus on it's core competency in search, in bid t
by erichocean 14y ago
We're five years and billions of dollars of wealth destroyed from the following Google headline:
Google to re-focus on it's core competency in search, in bid to regain competitiveness and re-ignite growth.
Remember the good old days when Google's mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"? Someday, they'll get back to that. For now, it's clone Facebook! Stat!
Google Reader organized RSS feeds -- information. That was the old Google, the old mission statement, the old focus. That's why Larry killed it. Someday, Google will swing back, because that's actually why we all like Google anyway. Hopefully, it won't be too late.
- nonamegiven 14y agoGoogle swing back? I doubt it. Once they crossed over into a billion+ company, their mission became to be a billion+ company. That they still organize the world's information, or claim to do whatever they did in the past, is just momentum that will bleed off. They make money. That's all they do. Nothing wrong with that, but they're never going to be what they were. Their future is to be General Electric, or Comcast, or HP in their declining years. The difference between HP and Google is acceleration; the days of Bill and Dave are remembered wistfully, as they were not there for the decline and destruction. The days of Page Rank and Labs and excitement are dead and gone, as are the human days of Lestat, never to return.