Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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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