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Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by sidcool »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #76
sidcool wrote: post #65

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Of course they haven't invented it. But it's the execution and scaling that's more difficult than ideas. Like Elon Musk says, Ideas are easy, Execution is difficult and scaling is excruciating. I find it amusing how much we as a civilization don't value execution, scaling and operations.

oh come on, of all the things Elon can take credit for, paraphrasing thomas edison cannot be one of them "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"

Again, Elon hasn't invented that quote. His companies have done the hard work of scaling.

Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by jwestbury »

xcdzvyn wrote: post #68
Arainach wrote: post #60

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>Book publishing. Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan combine for 77-91% of the market: https://www.statista.com/topics/9280/book-publishing/#topicO... >Fine art. This isn't an industry, just a tax evasion scheme for rich people >Music. 3 players control 70% of recording: https://musically.com/2023/04/26/music-copyright-publishes-i... >Poetry. Not an industry, never has been…

> taxis have been cannibalized by Lyft/Uber - what's your argument here? Once the market figured out how to sidestep government regulation of the ride-hailing industry, it got significantly cheaper, easier, and more accessible?

> significantly cheaper

On the back of VC funding and operating at a loss? This isn't a great argument, TBH, and prices have increased to the point that they're generally in line with "real" taxis in places I've been -- and still without Uber and Lyft having become profitable.

Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by glimshe »

What an incredible change in just 25 years: from the darling of the tech world with a ton of goodwill to just another big US corporation spreading spyware around the world. I miss old Google.

Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by Gud »

fractalb wrote: post #69
morkalork wrote: post #4

And how far they've strayed from the beginning. Don't be evil. Won't show ads inline with search results that look like organic links. Constant product churn, search results inundated by click farms, and one can't leave out WEI...

You're only counting the negatives. Even with all those negatives, Google has a net positive effect on the web/Internet, IMO.

It had. Now thanks to google, the web is filled with SEO crap.

Thank god for Kagi

Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by sebazzz »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #26

I honestly think the world is a poorer place for having had a single US company dominate so many areas of digital technology for so long. I hope that in another 25 years giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple and so on are just small players in a globally inter-operable, open and diverse technological world.

That's what you get when government(s) just sit back and hope the market sorts it out.

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Post by DistractionRect »

benatkin wrote: post #48
lolinder wrote: post #37

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I came here expecting to see this thread completely filled with the usual Google hate and was pleasantly surprised to find this here instead. Thank you! I'm fully in agreement with most here that the modern Google is a danger to the internet, but it's pleasant to be reminded that this wasn't always the case. It's a bittersweet anniversary, so let's take the sweet with the bitter.

I was thinking it was bitter, but you reminded me that there is something sweet about it, it brings us closer to the end of Google. In fact this makes me wonder if it could be half over. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-...

You're confusing being a part of the index with existence. Companies usually exist well before they get added to the index, and well after.

Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by mattnewton »

AlbertCory wrote: post #35
mattnewton wrote: post #25

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It’s apparently the DOJ’s turn to call Google a monopoly, the case they filed in 2020 is finally going to trial, and it’s all over the news. The FTC itself sues google every few years, last two were in 2019 and 2022 so give it a few more years.

Actually, "all over the news" is what it's NOT. Just yesterday there was a story about how Judge Mehta caved to G's desire to keep everything secret. Consequently, the journalists have nothing to write.

I see multiple new articles a day on this. Even covering what can be covered is news haha https://gizmodo.com/judge-says-google-cant-keep-hiding-docs-...

Re: Google's 25th Birthday

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Post by ptnarvaez »

Google i want to celebrate every year with you the shift and fullfillment that my life finally have taken in action with trough You and your Team Make My today my crossover to a life of pourpose and abundance partnering and sharing todays date of Celebration forever i want to give you as a gift the priviledge of being the hand who believed in me as much as i believed in you and Make my dream NOW A Reality You Daugther in Spirit,Flesh and Bone i said EXPLODE MY PAYDAY GOOGLE HAPPY 25TH ANIVERSARY !!.
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