Re:Google Kills Cloud Print
by icebraining on Friday November 22, 2019 @05:40PM
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I'm not sure it was profitable, but Orkut, at its peak, had 300 million users, and that purely a result of an experiment by an engineer.
Re:Google Kills Cloud Print
by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Friday November 22, 2019 @06:50PM
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You're forgetting Maps, Earth, Docs, Translate, Drive...
Also, many of the acquisitions you mention were tiny when bought, and Google has a much better track record of growing and improving them than, say, Yahoo.
Re:Google Kills Cloud Print
by scarface74 on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:46PM
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Growing and improving yes. Do any of those products help Google’s bottom line or to diversify where their profits come from?
I can see Docs with GSuite especially in education and maybe Drive.
Docs and Drive were also acquisitions. I'll give you Maps and Translate.
Doubtful. The successful products to come out of Google are Search, GMail, and GCP. They bought Adwords, Doubleclick, Android, Youtube, and Nest and Fitbit, I suppose. GCP is their only recent win, but it's a me-too late entrant in a market Google should have invented.