Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the years ahead?

Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by epolanski on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:14PM (#29789047)

It is very hard for me to imagine a world in which Google isnt the default search provider for almost the totality of people outside China or Russia. I don't think I even see my tech-aware colleagues using anything else except the rare unicorns with duckduckgo.

I just can't see putting netflix and google search in the same basket.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by poulsbohemian on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:27PM (#29789193)

See the comment lower down in this thread: >Google Search is beset from all sides right now. Their search results are terrible and people are looking for alternatives. They’re definitely at or past the peak of that product lifecycle.

Note the discussion not just here on HN but across several channels over the past 48 hours about how bad Google Search results have become. Personally, apart from a Google Business page I don't use any other Google products and haven't in years. Their product track record is poor and their search quality has slipped. Given another 5-10 years, I don't find it difficult at all to believe that someone like Apple, if they wanted to replace Google entirely as the default search on their device, couldn't make significant headway in search market share.

Sure, Netflix and Google aren't the same here - that wasn't my point. My point was simply in reference to the previous poster's comment about "too big to fail." The past 100 years of the stock market is littered with companies that were deemed unstoppable leviathans.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by mensetmanusman on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:06PM (#29790791)

Apple could replace the default on the iPhone and few would care.

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