Google suffers from a digital petro curse

Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse by rojcyk on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:52AM (#26386351)

I don't think so, people are def aware of these projects. The problem is the stuff you mentioned (at least YT, gmail chrome, maps) are in a pretty rough spot.

And while Waymo might have an insane potential, it is just that, a potential.

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Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse by bryanlarsen on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:06AM (#26386498)

YouTube was a $15B business in 2019. Given that Google pays Firefox about $400M for search engine priority for its 4% market share, owning Chrome saves Google about $6B a year in payments for its 60% share. I bet that both maps and google apps for business (of which email is a core piece) are also quite profitable, depending on how cost accounting is done.

Why do you say they are in a "pretty rough spot"?

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Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse by throwawayzRUU6f on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:00AM (#26387075)

Also, Waymo became untouchable. A lot of Google's valuation rests on pixie dust promises of transformative potential of future AI. Admitting that it won't happen anytime soon and culling Waymo would take a lot of Silicon Valley ecosystem with it.

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Re:Google suffers from a digital petro curse by sbergot on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:03AM (#26386475)

Youtube and chrome are still largely dominating their market. Can you expand on those?

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