My wife got upset with me when I dns-blocked all the ads.

It sounds totally insane but we’re the minority here. That’s why Google is a $4.5 trillion company.

By that logic though wouldn’t Google have wildly successful products instead of a long line of failures? Googles product strategy is akin to throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

Sure some stuff sticks but most falls off the wall and is axed barely half way into the product life cycle.

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xboxnolifes 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You're on HN, you should be aware of the idea of not needing every product to succeed. They only need 1 in 10, or 1 in 20, or however many moonshots to succeed. You can not like that strategy, but it's basically the entire tech industry.

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AntiUSAbah 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No one around me cared about Google Reader / their RSS Reader.

Pepole around me don't even know what google is doing besides search and probably maps.

I'm the person with an adblocker, the others are not.

Who is Googles target audiance? Its not me. I might only be a target for when i run some IT Platform in my work as an architect.

	▲	duzer65657 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>> Who is Googles target audiance? I think this is an easy question to answer: 1. what's your monthly ad spend? 2. how many ads did you view lasy week? You're probably not their target.

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MiSeRyDeee 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Pretty much all companies have a long line of failed products, only the ones we heard have successful ones. Google is definitely one of the most successful companies ever existed

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impulser_ 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People need to understand Google. They have a long line of failures, because they are an innovative company. Their whole goal is to scale products to billions of users. So if they release a product, and they see no path to billions of users they cut it and move on.

This has always been the way Google has worked. This is why they are literally the most successful company in the history of the world.

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WalterBright 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Sure some stuff sticks but most falls off the wall and is axed barely half way into the product life cycle.

If you're not failing often, you're not an innovative company.

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vntok an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But they do have wildly successful products.

They also have failures, then again most companies have failures as well at all points in the product cycle.

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kevin_thibedeau 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Those failures are funded by a wildly successful product.

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duzer65657 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

let's be clear: Google is a titan because they successfully sold ads to people who sold to you. We were never the target market beyond building a monopoly on eyeballs, and it's questionable if their ad empire continues. Outside of that they've had very few successes, and while traditionally the hardware is high quality, the bundled services and level of enshitification now is a no-go for my family. If you're buying into the single vendor for the rest of your life, the choice is currently Apple IMO, because they're "least bad".