Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
by esafak on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:58PM
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Google has the margins to take risks. If you don't disrupt yourself somebody else will.
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Re:Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
by chatmasta on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:12PM
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So when Bezos says "your margin is my opportunity," he's talking to Google?
It's not just that Google can take risks because they have margins. It's more that they need to take risks to diversify their source of margins before they disappear to someone like Bezos.
Amazon is already there.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-is-quietly-building-th...
Interestingly, Amazon's move to ad placement seems to coincide with how terrible Amazon's search is. It's a pay-to-play free-for-all wasteland. Not too dissimilar to the SEO wasteland of Google search.