Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by glenrivard on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:34PM (#18169452)

Poorly managed? They have now grown over 20% the last ten quarters and now over 26% the last two. Since the beginning never declined for a quarter YoY. Even though the great recession.

That is pretty hard to do.

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by notfromhere on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:47PM (#18169588)

I mean you really can't argue that Google's attempts to move away from relying on ad revenue for most of its earnings have been successful

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by karpodiem on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:50PM (#18169616)

"The bulk of Google’s $110.8 billion revenue in 2017 came from its proprietary advertising service, Google AdWords."

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busin...

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by glenrivard on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:58PM (#18169708)

Yes but not following how that relates to "poorly managed"?

I mean they are in all of history the fastest to a $100B market cap and since started in 1998 it was right at the .com bust. Then the fastest to $200B.

Does that not take good management?

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by someguydave on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:57PM (#18170244)

Managing not to screw up their de facto monopoly on search/ad placement is not the same as managing to do something else highly profitably

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by glenrivard on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:05PM (#18172088)

YouTube has over a billion hours consumed a day. That is not search. Actually it is now the #2 most popular web site.

So they have both the #1 and #2 most popular sites now.

Heck they are rolling out the first robot taxi service in Arizona later this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by gaius on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:32PM (#18171036)

They have this immense cash-generating engine that is AdWords and that means management can make alot of mistakes without it even mattering. If that revenue went away, what would they do?

Conversely, if Bing was shut down at the same time, Microsoft would shrug and keep on rolling.

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by karpodiem on Monday October 08, 2018 @01:46PM (#18169574)

How many FTEs do they have running G+? There are a bunch of OSS people that use it because Facebook sucks and Twitter is toxic.

The good will from the OSS community in maintaining G+ can be easily paid for in the 250% growth you referenced. And please, save me from the 'we need to double down and focus on products that matter' - no, you need to maintain some credibility for your product ownership.

That's why I don't spend a single dollar with GCE.

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by Apocryphon on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:45PM (#18170148)

Shouldn't the OSS community be using an OSS social media network like Mastodon anyway?

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by mattkevan on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:38PM (#18171552)

Not if they want a reasonable amount of people to actually see what they’ve written...

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