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0 pointsfatfingerd2y ago0 comments

> Unfortunately Sundar is also relatively weak at setting a bold vision to ensure the company continues to grow and innovate, as Larry had done.

I'm willing to presume Larry had bold visions, but if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same.

I think it's time to admit that google has been a conglomerate for decades and could no longer run with innovative management. The correct thing to do is to break it up so subdivisions of today can be innovative companies, or reliable dividend payers, or bankrupt.

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ikt2y ago

> if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same

In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[11]

Google Maps was launched in February 2005.[2]

These are the last 2 Google products I use

Search got replaced by DDG then Ecosia Chrome by Firefox Gmail by my own mail server My Pixel 2 ran out of security coverage and sick of buying a new phone every 2 years I went to an iphone xs

Youtube and Maps are the only two sticky products left and both came about when I was in high school

esprehn2y ago

From what I observe Google Photos is quite popular. It's from 2015.

el_nahual2y ago

The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb.

He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project.

He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars."

Pretty good listen.

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runnerup2y ago

For me, Google Photos started a bit earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

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ohashi2y ago

Because of android lockins. Not because it's a great product imo.

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BrandoElFollito2y ago

> my own mail server

This is hardly reproductible. I guess that the standard place people go after gmail is fastmail.

But getting a free equivalent is hard (at least I do not know any). I could host my mail but this is hard work and monitoring.

nicehill2y ago

Agreed.

Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.

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ikt2y ago

definitely protonmail for sure

popol122y ago

Isn’t ecosia just a frontend to Google ?

somsak22y ago

bing

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0 pointsfatfingerd2y ago0 comments

> Unfortunately Sundar is also relatively weak at setting a bold vision to ensure the company continues to grow and innovate, as Larry had done.

I'm willing to presume Larry had bold visions, but if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same.

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ikt2y ago

> if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same

In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[11]

Google Maps was launched in February 2005.[2]

These are the last 2 Google products I use

Search got replaced by DDG then Ecosia Chrome by Firefox Gmail by my own mail server My Pixel 2 ran out of security coverage and sick of buying a new phone every 2 years I went to an iphone xs

Youtube and Maps are the only two sticky products left and both came about when I was in high school

esprehn2y ago

From what I observe Google Photos is quite popular. It's from 2015.

el_nahual2y ago

The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb.

He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project.

He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars."

Pretty good listen.

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runnerup2y ago

For me, Google Photos started a bit earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

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ohashi2y ago

Because of android lockins. Not because it's a great product imo.

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BrandoElFollito2y ago

> my own mail server

This is hardly reproductible. I guess that the standard place people go after gmail is fastmail.

But getting a free equivalent is hard (at least I do not know any). I could host my mail but this is hard work and monitoring.

nicehill2y ago

Agreed.

Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.

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ikt2y ago

definitely protonmail for sure

popol122y ago

Isn’t ecosia just a frontend to Google ?

somsak22y ago

bing

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse