Re:Google Will Eat Itself (2005)
by goodpoint on Monday June 13, 2022 @09:20AM
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> gigantic money loser
That's not the right metric to use. Google has a long history of using software and services as a weapon to prevent competitors from entering a market, or to control a market even if it's not immediately/directly profitable.
Once it's no more useful it's suddenly dropped, e.g. Google Reader.
That's not the right metric to use. Google has a long history of using software and services as a weapon to prevent competitors from entering a market, or to control a market even if it's not immediately/directly profitable.
Once it's no more useful it's suddenly dropped, e.g. Google Reader.
Oh, hello golang!