You forgot the metaverse, it was totally going to be the future^tm^!
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Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
It’s a little funny how everyone sobered up from perpetually investing in unprofitable free social media then they dove right back in to perpetually investing in LLMs with no real plan for sustainable profit.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
Hypx@fedia.io 4 months ago
It’s why Google is secretly in big trouble. Their biggest and most successful ideas were from well over a decade ago. There’s very little real innovation going on at Google now. They’re just throwing crap at a wall and hoping something sticks. Eventually, their cash cows will dry up and they won’t have anything to fall back on.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
They had so many great innovations over the years, the problem is they kill them off because they somehow can’t figure out how to monetize stuff that people want. It’s like if they can’t get the money from a third party, they’re out of ideas. I would have paid a monthly fee for Google Reader (not much, mind you, but I bet $1/month would have been enough to keep it running).
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Oh and killing projects people use
Can’t forget that
I’m still salty about a few of these
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Google (Alphabet) makes tens of billions in profit each year and they have plenty of stuff to fall back on, especially if they would stop killing everything they make, the issue is that none of it enables perpetual and exponential growth.
Because it’s not enough to make a boatload of money, you have to make sure next quarter you make two, or somehow your business is dead.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And they started cannibalizing their main product: search. It now tried to sell tot stuff instead of giving info you want, so users start to stay away.
anlumo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Search is absolutely unusable these days due to the SEO industry. Google has lost that battle.
xep@fedia.io 4 months ago
I love your optimism but I don't think Doubleclick is going anywhere, sadly.