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comment by ooli
ooli  ·  2729 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is How Google will Collapse Reporting from the very near, post-Google future

What I like so much about google is how inherently bad they are. They failed at anything that is not ads, or data/user-work extraction.

They have the most money in the world, the best mind in the best working environment, the most trapped customer/users/workforce, the most data, they choose the headlines... and .. all their grand plan are utmost failure.

  Everyone was talking about their glass. That was the future. They spend a shit-ton of money. The fad lasted 6 month.. more surprisingly Apple followed the proven failure trend with their watch.. Blind leading the blinds

  Google+ .. it was launched with such a bravado, forcing anyone who made a google-search once in their life to have an account, or something. Outing trans, ruining life in the process.. The "new facebook" is a failure.

  Last year that was the self-driving car. It made the headline (because google own the headlines) every time the car made a turn. It seems it's a dead end. I heard they sold their software and the self-driving business for a penny. Because it's shit, I guess.

  Now the AI. Every time they beat a Go-player, or something, we heard how great their AI is. It's probably another turd, because the headlines are already on the decline.

They are so bad at making anything else than selling ad.. It's funny.

That's my only solace: I can laugh at my overlord. While they still pouring money in a new dung-pile, and selling my data, and making me do the work to better their software/search-engine





Isherwood  ·  2729 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dunno. Android seems really good. My Google Assistant works much better than Alexa. Chrome is a good product. My office uses Google Suite, as do most offices I work with. I think they've had a lot of successes, but they're mixed in with a lot of failures.