Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
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Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#2Technological experiments often call for risk-seeking and adventure, but when it comes to things that affect other people, a more conservative and level-headed approach is necessary.
For example, the utter recklessness involved in deploying calibration scores and shuttering 20% time is deplorable. That's an extreme lapse of professional responsibility.
(Sorry if this irritating, but as a matter of principle, I must keep doing this until Google does the right thing and one of the two founders issues a formal apology, and not only to me but to thousands of other affected people.)
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#3Technological experiments often call for risk-seeking and adventure, but when it comes to things that affect other people, a more conservative and level-headed approach is necessary. For example, the utter recklessness involved in deploying calibration scores and shuttering 20% time is deplorable. That's an extreme lapse of professional responsibility. (Sorry if this irritating, but as a matter of principle, I must k…
Do you have some kind of script set up to alert you any time a story mentioning Google makes the front page?
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#4Technological experiments often call for risk-seeking and adventure, but when it comes to things that affect other people, a more conservative and level-headed approach is necessary. For example, the utter recklessness involved in deploying calibration scores and shuttering 20% time is deplorable. That's an extreme lapse of professional responsibility. (Sorry if this irritating, but as a matter of principle, I must k…
Do you have some kind of script set up to alert you any time a story mentioning Google makes the front page?
No, but that's a good idea. Thanks for that.
I have an important job to do, which is to try to save Google (although I will probably fail) from the people who are trying to destroy it. Even though I left that place and will almost certainly never go back, it's too important a company to let it fall to ashes.
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#5"CEO Eric Schmidt" lol
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#6This article barely talks about its title topic.
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#7Its reckless, up-for-anything approach seems to be working. Its stock price is now $909.18, up 50% over the last 52 weeks, and the company’s market cap is $301 billion. Its year-over-year quarterly revenue growth exceeds 30%, which is pretty remarkable for company of its size and age.
(warning: I'm not a Google fan in the Larry Page as CEO era and that has hellbanned /slowbanned me from here. Who cares. Oh well)
His entire premise is based on Google growing by 30% a year and that's done by over-monetizing https://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/01... search and (IMHO) using search to force sites to advertise by limiting their free traffic with that purpose. Google Search seem to work to increase Adwords revenue, something many people believe in the post Larry Page world. (Still IMO) this will backfire, I read that many people do not know that they clicked on ads, they thought they were organic results. 95% or so of Google's revue is still thanks to ads.
Also Google is doing all it can to not send users to the best answer, but to ads and to a Google site. I see YouTube videos all over search, Google Places, images and other Google services. Google has become over1ly aggressive with ads and penalizing sites, in part to give themselves some runway to try other things, no one questions Larry when things are growing by 25%-30%.
As for the stock price, Apple was supposed to go to $1000 too, sometimes the fall is just as dramatic.
Bing is "good enough" for most people, that's why Microsoft is trying to muddy the Google brand. That's major risk too, if you do not trust Google results, they can go downhill quite fast.
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#8Not exactly sure how this article defends its headline at all.
Considering that the author points to Motorola and Facebook Home as wins, his grasp of the tech scene seems rather weak.
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#9Not exactly sure how this article defends its headline at all. Considering that the author points to Motorola and Facebook Home as wins, his grasp of the tech scene seems rather weak.
I figure we should just flag the article off of the front page then?
Re: Google’s Greatest Strength May Be the Luxury of Failure
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have some kind of script set up to alert you any time a story mentioning Google makes the front page?
No, but that's a good idea. Thanks for that. I have an important job to do, which is to try to save Google (although I will probably fail) from the people who are trying to destroy it. Even though I left that place and will almost certainly never go back, it's too important a company to let it fall to ashes.
You can't iterate on products without launching them. Startup culture in Silicon Valley is all about failing fast.
The heart of science is running experiments, and if Google can't run experiments or pilots, it will fail to the innovators dilemma. Our democracy is similarly unable to run experiments to test out policy, which was another thing Larry talked about, as a result, we argue over the effects of policy without doing anything. States were supposed to be the laboratories of democracy, but even on the state level, hardly any experiments are conducted.
The idea that you should only launch services you plan to run forever is a plan for stagnation and death.