How Google Could Collapse

Re:How Google Could Collapse by thunderstrike on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:50PM (#14222531)

> Search was Google’s only unambiguous win, as well as its primary source of revenue, so when Amazon rapidly surpassed Google as the top product search destination, Google’s foundations began to falter.

This is the most annoying line though. Literally his own sources don't corroborate his assertion.

Also, it is in past tense. When the first source he links to is from 4Q 2016. Alphabet literally beat its earnings expectations yesterday.[0]

[0]:http://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-google-reports-q1-ea...

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by soared on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:05PM (#14222632)

Agreed, that claim is the worst. Even more so because hes comparing product searches, while his claims are about all searches.

Its like saying.. more people search for images in imgur than on google, so all of google search is going downhill.

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by dragonwriter on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:54PM (#14222559)

> Also, it is in past tense.

It's written as a report from "the near future", so both current and speculated future events are written in the past tense.

It's a piece of not particularly insightful or entertaining speculative fiction.

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by palakchokshi on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:55PM (#14222563)

The post is written as if it was written in the future talking about things happening currently. See the line just below the title. Reporting from the very near post Google future.

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Re:How Google Could Collapse by thunderstrike on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:03PM (#14222624)

Which, unless it's a post-apocalyptic future, isn't coming any time soon.

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