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More like the pandemic is good for pushing activities onto the internet of which Google takes its slice.
And $2T dumped into stock market, portion of which companies have used on online ads to compete for increased revenue.
> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
Why upgrade to the latest intel CPU when you get a paltry 100Mhz clock increase for the bother? May as well wait another year if 3 year old CPUs are pretty much the same performance as current models (give it take a few %)
Edit: possibly not quite but almost certainly 1/2% excluding China.
> In January 2021, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years Does anyone know what the observation was here that made this possible? Have Google's internal workloads not grown in size as quickly as they thought, or is this a "Moore's law is slowing down" thing?
There are still Sandy Bridge CPUs available in GCE. Sandy Bridge came out in Q2 2011.
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And $2T dumped into stock market, portion of which companies have used on online ads to compete for increased revenue.
Where are you getting your $2T number from?
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There's a part of Chaos Monkey where the author describes driving past Google on a weekend and seeing empty parking lots while Facebook's were full (this was during Google Plus). He concluded that Google no longer had a fire in the belly and facebook was going to overcome it, not just in social mindshare, but ad revenue. Conditions changed.
The dirty secret of tech is that markets matter more than effort or smarts. If you have product/market fit and a decent technological lead in a market that is large and growing, you will do better than a company that does not have PMF or a good market, regardless of how hard you work. (This explains so much about Oracle.) Social media mentions are probably a better sign of how well you'll do than full parking lots. I…
If there were 100 good search engines the price for advertising would be 90% lower