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Keep an eye on this: https://abc.xyz/jobs -> https://abc.xyz/about/careers/
404!!1
hm, that's a new http error that i'm not familiar with
G is for Google
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#432Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yaa, $1 for a domain like hooli.xyz or Google, I mean Alphabet ( https://abc.xyz ). I'll try it out. Just snapped up prefi.xyz, suffi.xyz, picka.xyz, icebo.xyz, equino.xyz, mailbo.xyz, postbo.xyz, rolode.xyz, soapbo.xyz, toolbo.xyz, lunchbo.xyz, letterbo.xyz, chatterbo.xyz for about $15 total for all of them. I skipped on conve.xyz, laryn.xyz, proli.xyz, and surta.xyz, which were all open a few minutes ago.
Glad to see innovation in action. This is the kind of stuff that makes the web worse - domain squatting.
> Glad to see innovation in action.
Thank you!
I sent in a registration for proof.com on February 3, 1996, but missed out on it by a few hours to some other dude. Never again!
Just snapped up remar.xyz, networ.xyz, noteboo.xyz, payche.xyz and a few more.
Went on a geometry/graphics kick and snapped up stuff like plotting.xyz and intercepts.xyz as well.
I don't make the rules, I just play by them.
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#433Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't 96% of Google profits from search ads only? They 've done a million ventures since then, still remain ad-funded.
Yes. Because the Google part isn't being spun out to the shareholders but remaining a part of the conglomerate, this does nothing for the shareholders. The sea change would be if new-Google were a separate listed company returning its earnings to its shareholders. Instead it's a separate private company returning its earnings to Larry and Sergei to blow on whatever BS they want... just like it was yesterday. About th…
> its shareholders
they did nothing to create the algorithm, what right do they have to whine?
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Wave, Plus, Glasses at least. If we are to include less ambitious stuff, Google Video, Orkut, Chromebooks (never went far), Reader, Google Code, Dart, nothing much came out of Morotola, etc. And let's see were those "self driving cars" will go, market-wise...
Chromebooks are pretty popular. The first generation wasn't very good but the more recent ones are selling well. Reader was very popular relative to the size of the RSS reader market. Google bought Motorola for the patent portfolio and sold off the rest, so I'm not sure how that was a failure. Motorola also turned around their mobile division with the Moto X under Google (over 100% increase in mobile sales due to the…
Orkut was heavily used in Brazil (and India, according to Wikipedia).
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#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
The danger of conglomerates that give so much freedom to their subsidiaries is that said subsidiaries start actually competing against each other and hurting the business overall.
Danger? You mean benefit? Companies not succeeding themselves even as they fall from relevance is a massive reason why large companies fail. Look at Blackberry, they had an internal project working against the rest of the company (namely Android on Blackberry hardware) that could, had it been allowed, saved the company. Instead Blackberry are either going to be purchased OR go bankrupt. Honestly internal competition…
And Nokia let the bigger, older Symbian division to keep the smaller Maemo/MeeGo division to ever reach any relevance.
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#436And T is for Twitter? This seems like it would be the perfect foundation with which acquire twitter right? A twitter acquisition makes sense under Alphabet in a way it doesn't under Google, no?
Yes. I think the anti-trust case is weaker if Twitter is wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet, instead of Google.
On a broader scale I think Google is gearing up to aquire its way out of areas of stunted growth for the company. A number of businesses haven't taken off:
Twitter :: Google Real-Time Box :: Google Drive At Enterprise Level 8x8 :: Google Voice
(I own none of these stocks)
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#437At last, reversing Jobs' advice to combine everything, returning to the original idea of trying lots of things. Maybe 20% time will see a resurgence, too? Bonus: small, separate entities makes it easier to tackle new opportunities (which start small) that wouldn't move the needle for Google - as per Christensen. > We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now have over a billion…
Android was tiny and far away from launching when it was acquired. And the YouTube acquisition was definitely considered crazy at the time.
YouTube wasn't considered crazy at all by the time Google bought it. It was clear by then that it was a runaway success, so clear that even traditional media companies like Viacom and News Corp were bidding for it. It certainly wasn't some small company that Google grew from nothing into dominance; it was a billion-dollar company that had already won its space.
Some articles from the time:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/09/technology/google_youtube/
http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/google-has-acquired-youtube...
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#438To summarize (correct me if I'm wrong): - Google will now be operated as a subsidiary of a new company called Alphabet. - Alphabet will be publicly traded under the same symbols as Google is now traded. - Stock will just transfer as-is. - Sundar Pichai is now the CEO of Google. - Larry and Sergey will run Alphabet as CEO and President, respectively.
One more thing, Google will be named to Gisco.
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#439Fun game: Name Google products A-Z without looking them up! Here's what I got: Android, Blogger, Chrome, Drive, Earth, Finance, Google, Hangouts, Inbox, Jaiku, Keep, Local, Maps, Now, Offers, Picasa, Questions, Reader (RIP), Search, Translate, U??, Voice, Waze, X Labs, Youtube, Zagat... I couldn't think of anything for U and Jaiku was a bit of a stretch
>>I couldn't think of anything for U
Also a stretch, but...
universal analytics or maybe url shortener? (goo.gl)
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#440Google you're drunk, go home.
Ok more seriously as a customer: uh, what the hell just happened?
"Hey you know that great brand we had? Yeah lets pivot towards ... letters. That children learn"