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The State of Google

The State of Google

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  • See, Google has just entered its IBM era.
    by gokuljs
  • Your question: "Why is it that each of the tools I have been using for the last 20 years are being destroyed one by one?"

    --> the answer: anyone can built it themselves today

    by eli_berman
  • Google Earth is likely not profitable to keep it alive. This probably happened with many other services killed previously.
    by Panzerschrek
  • Google is fine. One of the world’s most profitable companies.

    Nothing to see here.

    by rvz
  • Does google plan to keep the web version? also, you can still use the desktop app. this seems like a non-issue
    by omosubi
  • Yahoo did the same thing to its web browser and Yahoo Groups, not to mention Geocities. If something costs more to support than it brings in, a company will end support for it.
    by orionblastar
  • Could it be possible that Google is doing some major restructuring? Together with recent AI leadership changes [1], could this be another apparent manifestation?

    [1] https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/n...

    by penkovsky
  • Google wants money.

    The past decade they've been replacing any leadership who thinks about serving their users or creating amazing things with people who can only think in terms of immediate money.

    Don't expect them to make anything new or interesting from here on out. They got lucky that the old guard was so interested in AI, and the new leadership was unable to snuff it out before it turned out to be valuable. But Google will be unable to make anything new after AI since they have harvested their seedcorn.

    by lostdog

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