Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results [pdf]

Post by yugioh3 » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 7:10 AM UTC

d0gsg0w00f wrote: post #111

resolutebat wrote: post #106

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Color me skeptical, but I've never gotten in a car without having decided my destination first. I don't go to "any supermarket", I go to Supermarket X because they have the goods I need at a price I accept or the best promos that week or whatever. If letting your rideshare company decide your destination was really a thing, why wouldn't Uber be doing it already be doing it with human drivers?

> I've never gotten in a car without having decided my destination first. Not yet... > If letting your rideshare company decide your destination was really a thing, why wouldn't Uber be doing it already be doing it with human drivers? Because Uber isn't an advertising company. They're still chasing fares like scrubs

Post by snotrockets » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 7:17 AM UTC

morkalork wrote: post #29

resolutebat wrote: post #5

Google Cloud made $864M in profit in a single quarter, more than ever before. Google Bets lost $86 3 M in the same period, much less than ever before.

Does that mean we'll stop seeing all the alarmist posts about how one should never build on GCP?

Post by epolanski » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 7:43 AM UTC

Grazester wrote: post #108

epolanski wrote: post #94

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You have solid numbers behind your claim? By the way people are asking chatgpt or copilot what they used to Google. Not everything but a lot. I most certainly do and I think I'm not alone.

Isn't Bing Google biggest search competition? Is the general public using chat as a general search engine to replace the more traditional search engine or is it just us tech people. I can tell you I know of no one doing this outside of tech coworkers and even then just use it for programming related tasks to a very limited way. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/microsoft...

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 9:39 AM UTC

dekhn wrote: post #147

hiddencost wrote: post #59

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The most consistent thing I hear in the hallways is "I really hope they don't make TK the CEO." People in cloud are profoundly unhappy. It's scary.

I would prefer they spin cloud off into its own bet and TK becomes the CEO of a real company (now he's "CEO at Google Cloud", which isn't its own business entity in alphabet, and he reports to "CEO at Alphabet"). I don't see any likely path by which Kurian would become CEO of Alphabet.

Post by Moldoteck » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 10:21 AM UTC

gamepsys wrote: post #25

tra3 wrote: post #4

This caught my eye, total employees - 2022: 190,234 - 2023: 182,502 Total increase in revenue of 10 billion. Not sure what conclusion to draw from this, but being a software engineer I found employment count interesting. Though 5% change in head count seems hardly major.

To me it shows that Google doesn't know how to generate significant revenue with those eight thousand people. I am worried it indicates Google is running out of good bets and has limited future growth. Of course, the counter argument is that technology allows Google to do more with less people. I am not convinced by this argument, because Google's competition has about the same ability to do more with less people. If…