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I'm continually surprised by Google's total reliance of their core, original business: Search Ads. Google docs presented a neat opportunity to attack Microsoft
by meatysnapper 11y ago
I'm continually surprised by Google's total reliance of their core, original business: Search Ads.
Google docs presented a neat opportunity to attack Microsoft where it hurts, and Google has more or less pathetically failed, and Google docs continues to suck. I would have expected docs with version control, a big-data capable spreadsheet... not docs. BigQuery at least is somewhat ok.
Maps, shockingly, has gotten worse. On iOS the current app sucks battery life, and is unintuitive to use. Microsoft and Apple have more user friendly maps apps, which nobody would have expected upon using the original maps.
With Glass, they invented an entirely new way to be a douchebag.
Android, nothing.
App Engine, nothing.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> I'm continually surprised by Google's total reliance of their core, original business: Search Ads. I'm not. With all the venture capital pouring into Silicon Valley, how often have businesses to rival Google's Search Ads business been generated? Is it really surprising that Google hasn't managed, internally, to develop anything else on the same scale?
- nickpsecurity 11y agoI agree. It defies the common wisdom against putting all your eggs in one basket. Many of the biggest names in industry did the opposite by acquiring companies in both similar and very different industries. The reason is simple: losses in one might be offset by successes in another. Google should be growing big in other markets. They might also consider acquiring companies that could benefit from using Google technology and infrastructure as a competitive advantage. They get software for free and hardware (esp datacenters) at or right over cost.