Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regulatory action

Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by blinotz on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:53AM (#22264537)

What won’t google shut down?

Maybe instead of dragging out a seemingly endless series of customer trust sapping product shutdowns it should just decide what it’s keeping them split the company into what it’s keeping and what it’s killing.

Here’s my prediction of what will finally be left standing:

Search advertising

Maps

Gmail

50% chance they’ll keep their cloud 50% chance it’s already living dead like rackspace.

Everything else will go.

It’s starting to feel like google is in trouble.

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by myle on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:09AM (#22264611)

Thanks for your undocumented opinion that Google should kill products like Android, Cloud, YouTube, Chrome and many many others.

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by blinotz on Friday February 07, 2020 @05:12AM (#22264621)

You’re right they’ll likely keep android, chrome and YouTube.

I think they’ll give up on the cloud. Google has already given a succeed or close deadline on this.

What are the “many many others” you refer to? I suspect those are the ones google will kill.

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by shadowgovt on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:16PM (#22268937)

Google's doubling down on Cloud precisely because they want an additional revenue stream as big as ads; they know their income model is extremely monocultural and any number of things (either regulation or a titanic shift in the ad market, such as mass-adoption of ad-blockers) could hamstring the growth models they're accustom to.

I wouldn't predict they'll shutdown cloud until and unless they're convinced it won't blow up like they hope for them.

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Re:Divesting AdSense might help Google stave off worse regul... by nwsm on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:22PM (#22269015)

> 50% chance they’ll keep their cloud 50% chance it’s already living dead like rackspace.

I don't think you've done any research for this opinion.

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