An alternate model would be to make search good enough let consumers find stores within a radius of their current location selling X, and price compare them. E.g. I need a widget - stores a, b and c are selling it. Store a is $14.99 and 5 miles away, store b is $8.99 and 15 miles away, store c is $11.99 and 20 miles away.
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#102Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.
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#103Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 204 times, shame on me. https://killedbygoogle.com/
"companies don't try new things" - HN "Google kills products" - HN 99% of the people here would gladly work at Google. But what's the next best thing .. downplay the company you couldn't get into :) Carry on !
Notably none of these gives away 90% of their salary to ease their "guilt".
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#104So many questions... the big one: How does Google make money from this?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're providing them with market research about inventory, sales, customer demographics, ad click through, etc.... Google isn't doing this for you.
Just curious, what do they do with this data (other than maybe integrating into search)? Do they sell it? If yes, who buys these and what do the buyers do with it?
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#106Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Technically, no. He's head of Commerce, which is different than payments (I'm in payments). You can see from that page, they do things like shopping listings, and the experience around it. Payments (at least at Google) is just a service that teams like that can use. You'll notice that checkout screens for shopping, ads, Youtube, Store, etc... are all very similar. That final payment experience is Payments.
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#107So many questions... the big one: How does Google make money from this?
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#108Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 204 times, shame on me. https://killedbygoogle.com/
The list is misleading. Angular.js was superseded by Angular 2. Google hangouts was superseded by Google Meet...
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#109They need to solve shipping. Partner with Uber (or hey, Waymo) to pick up and drop off packages from shops to consumers. An alternate model would be to make search good enough let consumers find stores within a radius of their current location selling X, and price compare them. E.g. I need a widget - stores a, b and c are selling it. Store a is $14.99 and 5 miles away, store b is $8.99 and 15 miles away, store c is $…
Just search on shopping.google.com and then in the filters on the left side check the box for "Available nearby".
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#110So many questions... the big one: How does Google make money from this?