Has Google been humbled?
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Has Google been humbled?
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#2I recently switched to Windows Live. Google sites is a joke. I can make a call with my computer using Google Voice but only through gMail. I can't use the Chrome Google Voice extension to do this. Things like this have made me give up on the Google.
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#3What is Google doing at the moment? Chrome and Android are under development, but I can't really see anything else on the horizon. Search results now have a somewhat annoying hover preview, but I am wondering what else is going on over there.
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#4"Google is clearly in no danger as far as its core search/advertising business goes..."
Facebook would like a word with you.
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#6What is Google doing at the moment? Chrome and Android are under development, but I can't really see anything else on the horizon. Search results now have a somewhat annoying hover preview, but I am wondering what else is going on over there.
Yeah, but Chrome (browser + eventual OS) and Android consist of "the base for all non-server computing".
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#7Could it be Google was as surprised as everyone else about Groupon's revenues? During the rumors about Google's offer of $2 billion and then later $5 or $6 billion everyone was reporting Groupon at $500 million per year. After the deal was rejected people are reporting $2 _billion_ per year instead.
As far as innovation from their acquisitions, Google still has Dodgeball. Even without Dennis Crowley they must own something right? Couldn't Google put a few people to work reviving that project and have a social location app, probably tied into their existing Latitude/Maps infrastructure, to get into the check-in game? It seems like it could be possible to get value out of "failed" acquisitions, some of which were just a few years ahead of their time.
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#8I can't tell if this is a joke or not. I know the Hacker News hivemind is hate Google / love Apple, but this is ridiculous.
You want to know what Google has released to great success in the past five years? Here you go:
Google Chat
Google Docs
Google Calendar
Google Checkout
YouTube
Android
Google Chrome
Google Voice
Google TV
Granted a few of these are acquisitions, but I'm leaving out a ton of tiny projects and the tremendous contributions to Open Source projects and the developer community over the years.
Yeah, they clearly haven't done anything useful in five years. They should be dying as a company any day now.
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#9What is Google doing at the moment? Chrome and Android are under development, but I can't really see anything else on the horizon. Search results now have a somewhat annoying hover preview, but I am wondering what else is going on over there.
Besides active development on their dozens of profitable projects, the only big-name product on the horizon right now is Chrome OS and their social solution the press have nicknamed Google Me.
This isn't unusual around the turn of the year though. They typically announce their upcoming products during all the springtime conferences, especially I/O.
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#10yes they have definitely become irrelevant and lack even a minor understanding about the value of technology what with the second most popular smartphone os, a video site with a paltry billion page views per day and the second most popular website. man I wanna be considered irrelevant too