Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline

Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by amelius on Saturday June 18, 2016 @07:38AM (#11928059)

Of those products you name, GMail, Youtube, Chrome, Maps and Docs are near-commodity products. These are just basic services for which open-source versions exist, and every engineering team of about 50 people could easily recreate them given today's state of technology. This also holds for Facebook.

The real struggle lies not in the technology, but in the network-effect and branding.

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Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by Jabbles on Saturday June 18, 2016 @08:11AM (#11928186)

What do you think the thousands of engineers that work on these products are doing? You realise that there's a lot more to these products than the web interface?

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Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by amelius on Saturday June 18, 2016 @08:38AM (#11928292)

They work on making it scale. But that is an activity that pays for itself.

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Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by mercer on Saturday June 18, 2016 @01:55PM (#11929783)

Indeed. I use gmail, gmaps, and gdocs because they're good tools. If not for my still-free Google Apps account, I'd pay for just gmail and docs even if there are free alternatives.

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Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by coldtea on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:59AM (#11928628)

>What do you think the thousands of engineers that work on these products are doing?

Not much. Usually worsening them...

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