That's a big problem, a "support guarantee" could really help things.
Google is now a AD platform with a search engine to sell stuff.
I hoped a little bit in Fuchsia, it was the last one for me.
NOW?! They were that for the past 20 years mate.
I noticed today that they get rid of filters in the "products/shopping" tab
FFS
Their search could die and they’d still be the biggest advertising player on the internet by leaps and bounds.
https://www.voronoiapp.com/business/Breaking-down-Googles-Q1...
Facebook makes much more money than 19% of Google.
Edit: And I wonder why I got downvoted for being right, many here just blindly believe that Google gets their money from ads on third party sites when most of it comes from search.
> Their search could die and they’d still be the biggest advertising player
Nothing about their worth or whatever.
Google ad manager is the cornerstone of pretty much all internet advertising.
Even if you don’t buy ads from Google directly, somewhere in your ad pipeline is google ad manager.
That money is a part of Googles revenue, so there isn't as much there as you might think. Maybe you mean there is quantity there but advertisers doesn't pay as much for it as they would for Facebook or Google search ads, then yeah that is possible, but normally in a market segment you count big players by revenue and not numbers sold.
On the other hand there's zero desire at Google to try and build the best phone. They have conceded that to Apple a long time ago.
No desire to be number one in Cloud. They are fighting for number 3 spot.
They are the Xerox of AI with a full stack solution. If they had the drive they would be HYPING THE SHIT out of TPU and making it the best solution to run all the real workloads people have.
Guess what. On average a Googler even still today with low bar to entry is probably 10 IQ points higher than average Amazon or Microsoft or Apple. But no; no drive.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
porn is added by yours truly.
Porkbun is my go to registrar now. And I switched my email to Migadu.
saying this as someone who used to work for enom, if that matters.
Did it really come down to some PM not wanting to do registrar paperwork?
I could understand deprecating Google Domains for B2C, but for B2B?! What went through their heads?
Meta's performance reviews are also heavily weighted for measurable impact.
I think that the reason why it's beating Alphabet in so many fronts is team culture. Most new product teams are small and have a reasonably flat hierarchy. It's easy to make impact that's both effective and measurable, and the amount of engineering time working in "useless work" is minimised.
Schmidt still takes the gold medal in my estimate for destroying a company he ran by not understanding how the business actually works (as CEO of Novell he decided to screw their channel partners not understanding that the channel relationships were the company's entire moat against Microsoft).
But it's not like Schmidt had any strategy to bypass the network installers. He just decided to screw them hard so he could make a quarter look good, which lead inevitably to them deciding not to be Novell's low-paid salesforce anymore, which lead rapidly to the vastly premature collapse of the business.
Initially, at least, Microsoft was much a preferable OEM. Better docs (MSDN), better tech support, more profitable, etc.
(Microsoft also made embraced application servers. Spearheading switch from workgroup to client/server. But that's another chapter.)
i believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure "impact", and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.
It's the same reason why google products die when they don't reach mega-success (thus products getting killed off in spades recently).
Nobody wants to be doing maintenance on projects started by somebody else - so as soon as the lead visionary leaves for better pastures, that project gets languished, and whoever takes over it cannot use it to generate promotion worthy impact.