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G is for Google

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Re: G is for Google

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Post by mathattack »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #477
mathattack wrote: post #441

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I interpret it as keeping the ad machine separate from everything else. If product decision impact ad revenue, they stay in (G)oogle. Everything else moves to different arms. My guess is this serves 3 benefits: 1 - Less turf wars. 2 - Better visibility to investors on where the money is. 3 - Ability to spin off pieces as needed. Many companies resist this type of visibility because they don't want a Carl Icahn to com…

Transparency is easier when you have control (Class A versus Class C shares). I'm surprised more largish tech companies haven't followed along to not be at the whim of WallStreet and other short-term outlook players.

Here's the thing... Many companies are actually poorly run. For most of them, Wall Street does the dirty work of forcing them to relinquish their money to more productive efforts. (Think of all the bloated monopolies who used to have fleets of corporate jets and crazy perks) No extreme is right or wrong.

Re: G is for Google

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Post by mthoms »

mikek wrote: post #223
rbinv wrote: post #35

From the abc.xyz source code: Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort http://www.hooli.xyz/" target="_blank" class="hidden-link">.

It seems to me that their domain name ( https://abc.xyz/ ), and maybe even the corporate name, was chosen to imitate Hooli XYZ.

There's an Easter Egg on the site where one of the periods is a link to http://www.hooli.xyz . So yeah it was a nod to that for sure.

edit: The easter egg is on abc.xyz not the blogspot announcement.

Re: G is for Google

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Post by asveikau »

lawl wrote: post #413
gress wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Video, and Orkut, were complete failures and no longer exist. Successful products don't disappear without a trace. If they are closed by management when they otherwise might have succeeded, that is failure. Reader was a failure according to Google itself, which closed it due to supposed lack of interest. Once again, if the decision to close it was an error by your criteria, then they failed. The rest I would a…

If you watch a video on youtube today it's actually hosted on googlevideo.com or something (i know because uBlock). I assume they threw the youtube backend away when they bought it :) So in that sense google video is still alive, just a different name.

I wound not read too much into domain names. I notice when I log into gmail it goes to accounts.youtube.com.

Re: G is for Google

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Post by kevindeasis »

dotori wrote: post #382

Alphabet (the main company) B Calico (focused on longevity) Capital (investment) D E Fiber Google (now led by Sundar Pichai and includes search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube, and Android) H I J K Life Sciences ("that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens") M Nest O P Q R S T U Ventures (investment) W X lab ("which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort") Y Z

A is for Alphabet Android AI B is for Boston Dynamics C is for Calico D is for Defense E is for Evil / Eden Project F is for Fiber G is for Google H is for Haptics I is for Intercontinental J is for Justice K is for Kardashev-1 L is for Lifelike Experiments M is for Memetics N is for Nest O is for Open Source P is for Paige Q is for Quantum R is for Revitalization S is for Superintelligence T is for Terraforming U is for Umbrella V is for Variable Ethics W is for Web Driver Torso X is for X Labs Y is for Yotta Scale Computing YOutube Z is for Zombies

Re: G is for Google

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Post by rplnt »

ignoramous wrote: post #342
rbinv wrote: post #35

From the abc.xyz source code: Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort http://www.hooli.xyz/" target="_blank" class="hidden-link">.

.xyz domains are selling at 90% discount, in case anyone is interested.

Wouldn't you have to pay the full price next year?

Re: G is for Google

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Post by sidcool »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #133

Wow, they are doing letters? Really? Letters? Hey is Eric Schmidt still in the building somewhere? Ask him how well Planets worked out for Sun Microsystems. Interesting strategy, hard to second guess from the outside of course. Sun's motivation was to figure out whether the other parts of the company could stand on their own[1], it also makes it less fiscally complicated to discharge an entire group into the void. Th…

Does it matter if it's letters or planets? What worked for one might not for the other and vice versa.
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