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Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by jrempel »

octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

Google can only do so many things. Every avenue needs to have a significant impact. Google is also a SV echo chamber. They have a lot of blind spots. Lots of room for smaller startups to carve a niche. After get large enough to get Google's full competitive attention another story.

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by satanspastaroll »

octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

You are correct, google is trying to cover all sectors they can, and offer tools to join them even at a loss. After they own everything, they can start raising prices, dictate web standards and so on

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by jwr »

octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

It's easy: find a niche which is too small for Google or any other large company to bother with. There are plenty of those, especially if you look for something tied to the physical world (serving real businesses around you) and if you avoid the SV echo chamber (which means HN much of the time, too). In other words, don't try to be another Google, Facebook, Uber, or Bird. Do something specialized.

(I'm a self-funded entrepreneur)

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by reportgunner »

octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

Hang in there, the end is near.

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by diffeomorphism »

tantalor wrote: post #8
M2Ys4U wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God I hate Oath's awful privacy modal.

>God I hate Oath's awful privacy modal. What is "Oath"?

A company with a very questionable respect for privacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/16/oaths-privacy-policy-is-a-...

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/yahoo-oath-gdpr-i...

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

Just make something good and useful and don’t kill it and you will be exceeding Google in so many areas. Think marathon, not sprint.

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by notyourday »

octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

> Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive?

they certainly do aggressively shutdown the products.

> I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

Every second you are worrying about what Google is doing rather than continuing to work on whatever you are working on is the second you are wasting.

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by dantheman »

satanspastaroll wrote: post #12
octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

You are correct, google is trying to cover all sectors they can, and offer tools to join them even at a loss. After they own everything, they can start raising prices, dictate web standards and so on

Your worst case scenario has never happened.

Re: Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe

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Post by PerryCox »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #17
octosphere wrote: post #9

Anyone find anything that Google does these days to be aggressively competitive? As a one-man startup guy, I feel everything I do pales in comparison to what Google are doing and I feel nothing more than /eclipsed/ by them. I have found myself wondering: "If you can't beat them join them" on many occasions. I probably should just merge into Google one day and stop my worrying?

Just make something good and useful and don’t kill it and you will be exceeding Google in so many areas. Think marathon, not sprint.

Yeah this is a good point, if you have a product with good support, that's one way you can out compete them.
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