Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by curiousllama on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:55AM (#24159553)

AOL had a particular mismanagement problem that Google doesn't have.

AOL didn't lack depth: they literally had email (@aol.com), social media (AIM), video-calling (Vonage), cloud filesharing (Xdrive) and so much more.

Ultimately, they failed because (1) they were overvalued to begin with and (2) had a bad innovation model (top-down) that led them to (a) over-commit to online ads and (b) under-commit to broadband.

Google is sustainable & mature, and it has a distributed innovation model that will avoid the particular mistakes of AOL.

Google is reacting to the Walled Garden trend, not driving it.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by jacquesm on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:44PM (#24160138)

> Google is reacting to the Walled Garden trend, not driving it.

I could follow you right up to that bit.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by curiousllama on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:30PM (#24160718)

Yea, actually fair, bit of a non-sequitur.

I meant to say that Google is well-positioned to take advantage of being a Walled Garden, and is doing so now because the model is being built out out elsewhere, both domestically (Apple, Amazon) and abroad (WeChat, Jio).

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by wnevets on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:14PM (#24160504)

Facebook and Apple have been driving those trends for well over a decade.

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