Are we at Peak Google?

Re:Are we at Peak Google? by danso on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:38PM (#8496286)

I skimmed this article 3 times...Sorry, was there any actual substance to this link-baity headline, other than "Mainframes were big, now they're not and PCs were big, now they are not, ergo, Google is big, and someday they will not be"?

The OP provides little to no hypothesis on what will takeover Google...more "human" content, a la Buzzfeed? Seriously?? And then the OP goes on to dismiss all of Google's next-gen research (self-driving cars, Google Glass, etc) with a conclusion akin "Well Microsoft Research sucked so Google will to".

The OP is link-bait wankery at its worst. I'm sorry to even have spent 15 minutes trying to interpret it.

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Re:Are we at Peak Google? by missserenity on Thursday October 23, 2014 @01:33AM (#8496825)

? The author specifically mentions companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Plus the point isn't that one company will replace Google, it's that Google isn't positioned to take advantage of the next wave of online advertising - digital brand advertising.

And Google is not 3M. They have not proven to any significant degree that any of their research projects will provide lasting value to the company. In fact, almost all of their successful non-search products were acquisitions, not the result of internal R&D. Android was an acquisition; Maps was an acquisition; Docs was an acquisition.

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Re:Are we at Peak Google? by monkbent on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:51PM (#8496496)

Maybe don't skim and read thoroughly? I actually said they're still big. It's just that even bigger things came along.

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