How Google Could Collapse
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How Google Could Collapse
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#2Have we stopped evaluating companies based on vision and expectations? Because mapping all of reality is a pretty solid strategy that Google is striving for.
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#3Unnecessarily alarmist. It's true that Google isnt making free ad money anymore and other companies are viable threats unlike Yahoo and Microsoft of 2004. Google has lots of monetizable balls in the air - Cloud, Pixel line and few others.
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#4So short it
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#5"Ads are cool as long as they are relevant to me," said no one ever (who wasn't in the business of selling online advertising).
(EDIT: typo)
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#6So short it
Exactly, they are still at almost $20B in quarterly ad revenue. Facebook is their only competitor because of its captive and mobile audience. Plus they are already diversifying with more bets on the cloud plus things like Waymo, etc.
Edit: misquoted data thinking it was yearly not quarterly.
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#7I guess it's hard to predict the future. This was published 4 days ago, before earnings released showed that the author has no idea what they are talking about.
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#8"Ads are cool as long as they are relevant to me," said no one ever (who wasn't in the business of selling online advertising). (EDIT: typo)
I've said this. I signed up for Blue Apron from a Facebook ad, and it's one of the greatest things to happen to me.
I think that's the only time that's ever happened for me, tho.
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#9This also came out today:
https://venturebeat.com/2016/07/28/google-parent-alphabet-re...
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#10For context, Here's Alphabet's quarterly financial results released yesterday:
https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2017/Q1_alphabet_earn...
Revenue is up 24% year over year. Beat analyst expectations, so the stock jumped ~4% yesterday.