Although Google, Maps, Youtube are of daily use they are monetized exclusively by advertising which is annoying and hated by many. It has been many years since Google has launched an innovative new product.
I don't think ChatGPT will gain daily traction after this hype. Anyway we could say that MSFT and AMZN have demostrated more power to innovate with different business models (not only adv) and products.
The GOOG stock has a PE (Price/earning) of 23, while Coca cola 26. So the stock market expect higher growth from CocaCola than Google. Quite surprising.
- GOOGLE PE (23): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/pe-...
- COCA COLA PE (26): https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/pe-rat...
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
I'm willing to accept that maybe you are exaggerating to make a point. Maybe you have a better example that is actually illustrative?
Im legitimately asking, who is responsible for Search at Google? Prabhakar Raghavan is SVP, Search, Assistant & Ads, and I click under him, he has 8 product groups reporting to him, and none of the people are responsible for Search. Yossi Matias is responsible for Search Engineering.
It may at first come off as a laughable answer, but Google Search has been in a directionless spiral since Marissa Mayer left. Her Yahoo tenure was not well received, but at Google she cared about the end quality of the product. Her title was Search Products and User Experience. Notice how we have gone from User Experience to Search Engineering, forgetting about the people who actually use the product.
The press loves a David and Goliath story; the young disruptor versus the stodgy disrupted.[1] At that time, Dropbox was David, coming out of nowhere in a hurry and had a product that seemingly should be so obvious for Google to launch but hadn't - making Google seem antiquated and slow.
Fast forward a couple of years (aka a decade) and Dropbox is still going ok but Google Drive is by far more ubiquitous.
I guess only time will tell.
[1] Dropbox Versus The World https://www.fastcompany.com/3042436/dropbox-versus-the-world
At least one person is working on this:
https://twitter.com/hsu_steve/status/1623388682454732801
While something like this would of course be incredible, even just current ChatGPT + the ability to web search for you would be quite amazing.
If MS isn't ready to completely replace Bing, then they should've made it an entirely separate page: bchat.com or something.
Their Q4 2022 revenue was $76B [0]. YouTube + 3p ads were a combined $16.5B. That's about 20%, not about half.
[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q4_alphabet_earnings...
Lots of trash out there but Serious Eats is good quality.
https://www.verybestbaking.com/toll-house/recipes/original-n...
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-...
> Employees were encouraged to spend up to twenty-percent of their paid work time pursuing personal projects. The objective of the program was to inspire innovation in participating employees and ultimately increase company potential. For Google's part, Gmail and AdSense both arose out of side projects. In 2013, Google discontinued 20 percent time.
What has Google released since 2013[0]? Stadia?
Then you tack on that Google Search as of today is basically unusable/broken with people needing to append site:, double-quoting everything, or enabling verbatim search to get high quality results. Heck, on top of that, I also have a uBlock configuration that removes 280 domains from Google Results because they're all auto-generated spam of Stackoverflow answers.
There is something deeply wrong with the culture inside Google.
Since I can’t paste screenshots from my terminal, you can see the sector P/Es on page 6:
https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/performance-repo...
https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
In particular look at: dist/google/ and stackoverflow_copycats.txt
https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
In particular look in the dist folder, find your search engine(s) of choice, and then get the blocklist you'd like. Paste into "MyFilters" in uBlock.
Bonus: Here's one that entirely blocks Youtube Shorts in your Subscriptions feed:
www.youtube.com##ytd-grid-video-renderer:has(#thumbnail[href*=shorts])Here’s a tour of the recreation https://maps.app.goo.gl/syHHp9GWmaGA5Woz7
Also the comparison is between Google versus Dropbox (the underdog David that's analogous to OpenAI), not Google versus Amazon or even Google versus Microsoft.
Google is 51% of office productivity software market versus Microsoft. Microsoft is at 47%, Dropbox isn't even listed. [1]
Dropbox has a decent share of the personal cloud storage market but has really failed to expand beyond that vertical or become significantly profitable. [2]
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/983299/worldwide-market-...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1328893/global-file-shar...
I'm talking about lists like these: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/blob/mai...
It wouldn't take a small team more than a few weeks to get through these lists -- most of the work has already been done.
Alternatively, they could just let us add these lists to a first-party interface so we don't have to use plugins to achieve the same results.
Well ... Not a big one, I grant you, but hill nevertheless :
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4231911,-122.084872,3a,75y,1...
That may already be happening https://openwebsearch.eu/
The role of a government in a capatilistic society is to basically do the stuff that isn't profitable for corporations to do without exploiting the population. For example build roads, because if a corporation did that there would be tolls everywhere and it would be hard for poor people to improve their living standards if they couldn't economically move around. That seems to have happened on the internet. The internet is in the commons and everyone expects it to be free, the problem is that the infrastructure to navigate it was built by corporations and now we have to pay tolls through ads and trackers
You'll have fuedal lords (aka billionaires) in control of the digital money supply. How is that not a coup?